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he history-making book 'Dope, Third T Inc.' is now available, after being edition out of print for five years. The third, expanded edition of the explosive of the best seller bears the title: "Dope, Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy." explosive This overview of the global narcotics best seller trade, with a preface by American political economist Lyndon LaRouche, Dope, Inc. shows that the international trade in illegal narcotics is doubling every five years, with profits in 1991 alone of updated nearly $1 trillion. Thus, drug money and today represents the largest pool of liquid capital in the world. expanded Also exposed is the destruction of developing-sector economies by consortia of international bankers, which replaced the national economies with drug economies. Other chapters tell the real story of the organized-crime link to "Dope, Inc.," from the Bronfmans and Kennedys, to the British assassination bureau Perm index, to the Anti-Defamation League. Finally, in an appendix, Lyndon LaRouche's 1985 "Proposed Multi­ National Strategic Operation Against Order today the Drug Traffic for the Western Hemisphere" appears in full, a 14-point $16 plus $3 shipping and handling plan for defeating the drug traffickers for good. "Dope, Inc." was first published at Ben Franklin Booksellers the end of 1978, when the war on drugs 107 South King Street Leesburg, Virginia 22075 could have been won. Politicians heeded PH: (703) 777-3661 FAX: (703) 777-8287 the bankers instead of the warnings in this book. The war can still be won, if Visa and MasterCard accepted. Virginia residents please add we force them to listen now. 4.5% sales tax. Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Susan Welsh From the Editor Assistant Managing Editor: Ronald Kokinda Editorial Board: Warren Hamerman, Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Allen Salisbury, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, As some of you discerned a long time ago, EiR ' s editors don't Webster Tarpley, Carol White, Christopher White subscribe to "the power of positive thinking." For example, not all Science and Technology: Carol White of the positive thinking in the world will make Alan Greenspan's Special Services: Richard Freeman chimerical recovery come true. l;look Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman Nor will it tum the sickening spectacle of the Democratic Nation­ Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol al Convention into anything beneficial for Americans or the rest of INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: the world; Clinton and Gore combined the rock-bottom worst of Agriculture: Marcia Merry Asia: Linda de Hoyos what has happened to the Democratic Party since the McGovern Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, reforms of 20 years ago (the New Age), with the worst of the Republi­ Paul Goldstein Economics: Christopher White can Party's overt embrace of the Wall Street croWd. Therefore, as European Economics: William Engdahl one acquaintance put it mildly, whereas "Bush does not deserve to Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus be President again," the official opposition offers no alternative at Medicine: John Grauerholz, M.D. Russia and Eastern Europe: all. Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George The U.S.A. being a superpower, this is all mirroredin other parts Special Projects: Mark Burdman United States: Kathleen Klenetsky of the world, especially in the chaos engulfing our neighbors in the

INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: western hemisphere. Look at Peru-where we warned, in a cover Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura story not long ago, that Shining Path's savage "Pol Pot"-style terror­ Bogota: Jose Restrepo Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel ists are on the march to power, and that they are being backed by the Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen Anglo-American elite. It's all coming true. Look at Colombia, where Houston: Harley Schlanger Lima: Sara Madueiio the first "narco-democracy" is being born, thanks in great part to an Mexico City: Hugo Lopez Ochoa official U.S. institution, the National Endowment for Democracy, Milan: Leonardo Servadio New Delhi: Susan Maitra which might better be named the Narco Endowment for Democracy. Paris: Christine Bierre Look at the real ecology-the relative potential population-den­ Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Stockholm: Michael Ericson sity of the human race-threatened by the AIDS pandemic on a Washington, D.C.: William Jones scale which Lyndon LaRouche and EIR warned of years ago. Our Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund warnings were not only rebuffed, but scorned and slandered. We

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38 Edgardo Lopez Grimaldo 48 Mexico's true heritage of 4 Senators say Greenspan is A former spokesman for the Classical music running out of bullets Panamanian Defense Forces and Alfredo Mendoza,director of the With the dollar falling like a stone, aide to Gen. Manuel Noriega, Schola Cantorum in Mexico City, the stock markets crashing, and Major LOpez Grimaldo has been discusses the little-known tradition unemployment rising week by imprisoned in Colombia with the of music during the colonial period, week,isn't it time to federalize the aim of extraditing him to Panama an important vehicle for the Federal Reserve and change policy? on political charges. Evangelization. 6 AIDS researchers warn: 40 51 Scotland needs to recover miDion infected by turn of Departments its lost soul: music the century Scotland's Music, by John Purser. At the Eighth International 21 Dateline Mexico Conference on AIDS in NAFfA and the All-Star game. 52 Church music debate hides Amsterdam,scientists called for a deeper issues mobilization to stop the threat of 43 Andean Report Why Catholics Can't Sing: The the worst pandemic in history. Cultural relativism pushed in Chile. Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste, by Thomas 9 The LaRouche plan to 45 Report from Bonn Day. defeat the AIDS virus Pop-front tactics and black propaganda. 55 Music Views and Reviews 10 Revolt against 'shock The great voices of the early 20th therapy' gains in CIS 72 Editorial century. A vision for America. 11 Promising opposition to IMF policies could spark 'new Polish revolution' Correction: The conference in Cameroon to which Lyndon 13 Currency Rates Photo credits: Cover,pages 27, LaRouche addressed a message, 61,68,Stuart Lewis. printed on pages 8-9 of our last issue,was inadequately identified. 14 The anatomy of Sweden's LaRouche's statement was read to bariking deregulation the first National Convention of the debacle Social Democratic Front in Bamenda, Republic of Cameroon, 16 Mabathir says labor meeting May 21-26. lea4l1ers are traitors

17 Eustace Mullins, the great betrayer

22 Agriculture FDA okays biotech for wonder food/>.

23 Banking Bush's "December Surprise."

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34 Shining Path readies final 56 DOJ: Hang Demjanjuk, offensive in Peru even if he's innocent Like Thailand's Khmer Rouge, The Department of Justice has filed these butchers are not an a nasty attack against the U.S. "indigenous" movement, but were Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, imposed on the Andes by foreign Ohio,for daring to interfere in the influences such as the French Department's judicial lynching of Synarchists. John Demjanjuk.

Democratic presidential nominee William Clinton. 36 Foreign apologists back 58 'Never fear, I shall never Shining Path war give Up,' states Lyndon 26 Southern fried fascists seize LaRouche' Democratic Party 37 Zepp-LaRouche: Stop the With the nomination of Bill Clinton genocide in the Balkans 59 World leaders to U.S.: and Al Gore,the Democratic Party Revoke death penalty! has dropped any pretense of 37 Serbian leader and the representing the interests of its Hollywood mafia 60 In New York, Clinton-Gore former constituents from labor, A profile of Milan Panic. finish demolition of the farmers,minorities, and urban party ethnic groups. An analysis by 38 'Colombia has become Notes from the Democratic Kathleen Klenetsky. Endara's jailer' convention,by Webster Tarpley. An interview with Edgardo Lopez 28 The DLC and the new Grimaldo. 63 State court strikes 'hate feudalism crimes' law The Democratic Leadership 40 Escobar escapes, war Council,of which both Clinton and returns to Colombia Gore are members,wrote the script 64 'Homosexual rights' are ' for the transformation of the party not human rights that has now been effected. 41 Colombia: the genesis of From a Vatican letter to American the world's first narco­ Catholic bishops. 30 'A new covenant' for democracy austerity and zero growth 65 'True prophets' needed to From the 1992 Democratic 44 Germany sets 18-year oppose 'culture of death' Platform. transportation plan 67 Blackout of Noriega keeps 32 Clinton's economic policy 46 International Intelligence Bush's secrets

68 A Scottish activist visits America A commenta� by Alan Clayton.

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Senators say Greenspan is running out of bullets by Chris White

On July 21, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan pre­ Particular emphasis was placed on the failure of sented his semi-annual "Humphrey-Hawkins" evaluation of Greenspan's 23 successive r�ductions in interest rates to get the state of the U. S. economy to the Senate Banking Commit­ the economy moving again, imd on the collapse of employ­ tee . The report is named for legislation which tied unemploy­ ment, unforeseen by him in his earlier testimonies. Earlier in ment rates to national security as a prime concernof national the year he had told the Senate that if the official unemploy­ policy. ment rate were to go above 1:%, he would have to conclude The hearings were not the typically cozy, mutual stroking that there was not only no reFovery, but a recession. Now, sessions which usually take place between the legislators and with the narrowest of the goivernment's measures showing the Fed's chief bureaucrat. This time the gloves were off. 7.8%, and a new round of job eliminations in the works, he Greenspan was treated with a rudeness not usually seen in is still looking forward to eventual recovery. such appearances. His opening testimony was interrupted by Michigan's Senator Riegle. The substance of his remarks Bailing out the banks ' was demolished by Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.), quoting from Charges also flew thick and heavy, that his interest rate Greenspan's testimonies of the last year and more . But Sar­ reduction policy has only b�n intended to bail out banks. banes had not even been pres�nt when Greenspan delivered This time around, Greensp8ll was accused of "conflict of his prepared remarks. All in all it was quite a humiliating day interest" in his dual capacity as manager of the nation's mon­ for the jazz clarinetist and sometime companion of NBC's ey supply and regulator of some of the biggest banks. Senator battle-scarred journalist Andrea Mitchell, who was elevated Sasser accused him of organiZing a taxpayer bailout for the way out of his league to end up as head of the Federal Re­ commercial banks. "We're rerucing rates, and the banks are serve. using the reduced rates to cut the return they give to savers. Greenspan was hauled over the coals in a number of They in their tum take the fumds and invest them in govern­ different ways, and President Bush and the Brady Treasury ment securities, and we now findthat the banks, in my view, Department were dragged along in his wake. Chief among are getting wealth from their ill-advised leveraged buyout them were his record over the last year and half. Senators policies. In effect, the taxpayers are bailing out the banks for James Sasser (D-Tenn.) and Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) their problem loans of the 1980s, and the CD holders are griped: "You're always afterthe fact. You're always trailing helping to pay the freight of it." economic developments." And committee chairman Donald Greenspan's testimony, as well as his next day's report Riegle (D-Mich.): "Why is there any more reason for us to to the House Banking Committee, was organized around think you're right this time, when we look at the record and precisely this idea. He calls it "rebuilding balance sheets." It see that you've said essentially the very same thing in past now turns out, from the mouth of the Fed chairman himself, months, and it has turned out not to be right?" Greenspan that lower interest rates have not been intended to bring about had basically taken the tack of arguing that everything is an economic recovery, but rather to prevent an uncontrolled more or less on the right track, and if we only persevere, all meltdown of the financial system. That's no surprise to EIR will eventually tum out okay. readers . Greenspan put it this way: "The successive monetary

4 Economics ElK July 31, 1992 easings have served to counter these contractionary forces, nation to default on its state debt.John t.1ajor's Britain,where fending off the classic bust phase that seemed invariably to unemployment is over 10% and rising, and bankruptcies and follow speculative booms in pre-World War II economic foreclosures are at rates not seen since ilie 1930s. history. Lower interest rates have lessened repayment bur­ That's why the worldwide panic of July 20, and the cen­ dens through the refinancing and repricing of outstanding tral banks' intervention, mark a turning point.The world debt. And, together with higher stock prices, have facilitated financial system and economy is running out of control,and the restructuring of balance sheets." nobody is minding the store. Back to the fore of the agenda has come the crisis which too many pe()plehad been prepared Blacker than Black Monday to believe was under control: the depression bankruptcy of Greenspan's testimony was presented just one day after the United States. his 23rd reduction in interest rates brought the world financial The July 20 events were more tharijusta backdrop.They system to the brink of the precipice for the first time since the gave Senators Sasser and Riegle the opportunity for one final Black Monday global stockmarket meltdown in October 1987. twist of the knife as Greenspan concluded his testimony.As The dollar was in free-fall, nearing its post-World War Sasser put it: "I think you're running out of bullets over there II low against Germany's deutschemark. Stock markets at the Fed . . .because the Germans arenot cooperating with plunged, down 7% in Italy and Sweden, 4% in Japan, 3% in you.You're running out of options." Riegle supported him Germany and France, and 2% in Britain. Panic intervention in this way: "We're wedged into a comer here where deci­ from central banks in Europe and North America attempted sions in foreign countries,like for example, Germany, are to stem the tide. becoming very difficult for us to deal with because of the Some said it was the combination of the Democratic pres­ implications for us and how weak our economy is.. ..If in idential nomination of Bill Clinton, and the campaign pullout fact you're out to the end limits of what you can do--and of non-candidate Ross Perot, which did it. Others said it was that's the cold hard fact of the matter-then I think we have the decision by Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, to to begin a discussion about what other tools are available in increase interest rates which set everything off. other directions." What has finally begun to hit is the reality that the United Both senators emphasized what will no doubt become States is bankrupt-financially,economically, and political­ obvious very shortly.The Bundesbank's decision to increase ly.As the publication of June's 7.8% unemployment report its discount rate has eliminated Greenspan's ability to lower supposedly confirmed, Greenspan's lowered rates again interest rates any further,for example, at the end of Septem­ failed to give the economy a kick and stimulate recovery. ber, in time to give another kick to Bush's reelection cam­ After 23 times, such stories wear a bit thin, even for the paign.They point out that if GreensplPl cannot lower interest most credulous.As Senator Riegle bitterly remarked: "I don't rates, and if he is to act on his double-talking opposition to a think you see the risk in terms of all the damage that is free-fall in the dollar, then U.S.interest rates are going to happening to the economy. You don't seem to be able to see have to start to go back up again. Or standing policy will that. You can see the future risk, the inflation risk, but the have to be changed. damage in terms of all the unemployment, all the business Meanwhile, it seems that Germany's central bank will failures,loss of confidence,and the massive job eliminations: raise interest rates again at its next councilmeeting in August. Look at that, and you have a very benign reaction to it." Again the events on July 20 showed that Greenspan and The new round of financialcollapse is the not-so-delayed company are lagging after events.If his interest rate reduc­ reaction to the obscenity which unfolded in Munich, Germa­ tion option is removed, then all his claims about "fending off ny on July 7 in the name of the summit of the Group of Seven the classic bust phase " will be proven to be hot air. countries. There, it became apparent that the policymaking Sasser, Sarbanes, and Riegle arej of course, Democrats. structures of the western world have broken down. There Their name for a different policy is "fiscal stimulus," featur­ isn't a recovery, and there won't be one, without a fundamen­ ing "make-work " programs fixing up roads and bridges and tal shift in policy-orientation. Yet, here was the supposed the like. The next day, they opened up their committee to leadership of the world, acting out roles which could have hear the view of Clinton's economic: advisers such as Lester been assigned to any of the unfortunates who have adopted Thurow, and of Peter Petersen of tihe Council on Foreign names like Alexander, Julius Caesar, or Bonaparte,in psy­ Relations. chiatric wards around the world. They've got the symptoms down pat, but as for solutions, There was Bush and company,fresh from the recognition that's a different matter.Now is the:time to take up Lyndon that there would be no "recovery " to bail them out till Novem­ LaRouche's legislative draft and federalize the Federal Re­ ber,insisting that "character " and"family values " would be hot serve, to make credit available for j<)b creation in basic eco­ election issues, not theeconomy. France's Fran<;ois Mitterrand, nomic infrastructure, industry, and, agriculture.That's the his country gridlocked by transport strikes,facing a social ex­ way out of the abyss Greenspan and company have pushed plosion. Italy, set perhaps to become the first industrialized us into.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 5 AIDS researchers warn: 40 million infected by tum of the centuly

by Joyce Fredman

Over 11 ,000 people representing 133 countries gathered in million-a fourfold increase� "Perhaps not since syphilis Amsterdam, The Netherlands starting on July 19, for the among the Spanish, plague $ong the French, tuberculosis Eighth International Conference on AIDS. The week-long among the Eskimos,and smaltpox among the American Indi­ meeting, with some 5,000 scientificpresentations, was spon­ ans, has there been such a thr4at," he warned. sored by Harvard University and the Dutch government,and co-sponsored by the International AIDS Society and the Lack of political leader$hip World Health Organization. Dr. Mann, who is chainnan of the conference, tried to Ironically, the very same AIDS science mafia which, maintain an upbeat focus, insisting that this be a conference during the 1980s, · hysterically denied the magnitude of the of hope, based on the will andicommitment and capacities of AIDS threat worldwide, has now taken to the podiums to all those attending, despite thelhorrendous predictions. "This warn that inaction on the part of the world's governments is really a conference here of!hope, not a conference of de­ will cause mass deaths on the largest scale mankind has ever spair.We see people bringing together their knowledge, their witnessed. The AIDS mafia is still promoting the false view experience. We know that we can do better. We know, in that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease, so that they can fact, we can control AIDS an" care for the people who need link AIDS budgets to measures for population control; but care," Dr. Mann told the television news program "Good nevertheless, a picture of the true magnitude of the crisis is Morning America." beginning to come out. The Amsterdam conference was an Even with his Pollyanna,demeanor, Mann minced no important forum for this. words when it came to the pathetic record of the Bush admin­ During the 1980s,EIR and Lyndon LaRouche were virtu­ istration and the implications of its inaction. Mann said that ally alone in warningof the reality which the so-called experts the United States is "desperat¢ly lacking political leadership

are now, finally, forced to admit. (See Documentation on on the question of AIDS." In 100 way is the response of the page 9 for a summary of LaRouche's program. ) Bush administration commensurate with the problem; hence, "you have this gap emerging between the accelerating pace Estimates revised upward of the epidemic, the flatteningor diminishing of the response Authorities everywhere are now raising their estimates ...[the] gap is widening rapidly and dangerously. So we're as to the projected number of victims. The World Health at the critical moment. Eithen we're going to close the gap Organization (WHO ), under the auspices of the United Na­ ...or we're going to see thiS epidemic carry forward and tions, predicts that upwards of 40 million people will be really spin out of control." In another interview, Mann re­ infected with HIV,the AIDS-causing virus,by the year 2000; minded ABC News reporter Chris Wallace of the President's but the Global AIDS Policy Coalition, a Harvard University­ statement that we spend 10 times more on AIDS than on based research group headed by Dr. Jonathan Mann, has cancer. Mann suggested that possibly someone should be so developed a computer model that predicts that a staggering bold as to tell President Bush that not enough is being spent 110 million people will be infected. Independent researches on cancer either. have pushed the number up as high as 150 million. As one Dr. Michael Merson, head of the WHO Global Program doctor said, "Whether we talk 40 million, 50 million, 80 on AIDS, underlined the paltry amounts of money allocated million, or 100 million, it's a terrible epidemic and we need to this fight.On the continent of Africa,$2 per person is the to act on it." Researchers agree that 75-90% of infections average annual amount spent cjmhealth care,despite the fact will occur in the underdeveloped sector. that of the 13 million people irifected with AIDS worldwide, Dr.George Lundberg, editor of the Journalof the Ameri­ 8 million live in Africa. Besides wiping out entire popula­ can Medical Association, gave a briefing to the press on July tions of cities, he projected th,t by the year 2000, there will 18, noting that as many as 10 million people are believed to be 10 million orphans on the African continent. be infected, and by the year 2000 that number will be 40 Most of the new AIDS cases (over 70% ) involve hetero-

6 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 sexuals in Africa, Asia, and Thero-America. The number of for the conference, Dr. Rosenberg's report said that "one in infected has tripled in five years, and while about 1 million 57 men in Washington developed AIDS in the 10 years up Asians are infected with AIDS, Asia may overtake Africa by to 1991, more than six times as many lis in the United States the end of the decade, according to Dr. Mann. By the late as a whole." U.S. cases could be exPected to level off, but 1990s, India could have more people infected with HIV than cases in the federal capital would incrcltse by as much as 34% any other country, the chairman stated. Whole villages and from 1990 to 1994, he wrote. "Trend� in the nation's capital population groups are destined to die in Kenya, Uganda, and may be similar to those in other urban1areas." Since the mid- Zaire. "If you look at what's happening in Africa and what 1980s, Washington has seen 700 new AIDS infections a year will happen in Asia, you have reason to be very pessimistic," among intravenous drug users, 200! through heterosexual said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the U.S. government AIDS contact, and 150 in men who have sexual relations with other research efforts. "All the signs indicate that the pandemic is men. not slowing down at all." As stark as these figures are, conference participants agreed that they haven't received thei attention of Washing­ Disease of poverty ton's most illustrious inhabitant. Actress Elizabeth Taylor Even though the conference participants continued to stated to the conference, "I don't think President Bush is maintain the coverup line that AIDS can only be transmitted doing anything about AIDS. I'm not stn-ehe even knows how by sexual intercourse, mother to infant, and blood transfu­ to spell AIDS." On the MacNeil-Lehter television program, sions, it was also affirmedthat the virus is exploding in Africa Mark Harrington,spokesman for the AIDS Treatment Action and Asia much faster than in the industrialized nations. No Group, was even more blunt: "The most important point that explanation was offered for this; but clearly, the virus travels we have in our report is that as a nation, the U.S. is abandon­ faster among the poor. Dr. James Curran, director for the ing its commitment to eradicate the disease AIDS, whereas HIV/ AIDS division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the world 20 years ago made a commitment to eradicate said that although AIDS is expected to level off in the rela­ smallpox, and did so 10 years ago. America, which is the tively richer West, even there the poor will be extremely hard flagship of the worldwide biomedical research establish­ hit. "Throughout the world, the virus is winning flatout," he ment, has not committed to the eradication of AIDS and said. The link between poverty and AIDS was a recurring in the President's budget for this year, for example, AIDS theme. research doesn't even keep up with inflation.. ..We have Dr. MarcusConant of the University of California in San a governmentin gridlock, neither the 'President nor Congress Francisco told the conference that AIDS was once seen as able to coordinate a rational campaign against AIDS or any thescourge of homosexual men and drug users, but has now other serious disease." overwhelmingly become a killer of the poor. In Brazil, some AIDS patients sell their free AZT (the only drug which has New strains so far been licensed for initial treatment of AIDS) for food, It now appears that a new, undetectable AIDS virus may noted Dr. Maria Eugenia Fernandez, an adviser to Brazil's be emerging. According to Newsweek magazine, doctors AIDS control and prevention program. "Poverty is every­ have identified about a dozen cases ;in which patients have where," she said. "The AIDS epidemic is showing us in a developed acquired immune deficiency syndrome but never tragic way the fragility of our health care." tested positive for either of the knoWiIl AIDS viruses, mV-l or mV-2. Thomas Spira, epidemiologist at theU.S. Centers U.S. government inaction for Disease Control, is studying six American AIDS patients While the Third World will be most severely hit, Dr. who tested negative for HIV. "We ddn't have any indications Curran told the conference that in the United States, a total that this is a widespread problem," $tated Dr. Harold Jaffe, of 230,179 AIDS cases had been reported by the end of June, acting director of mY/AIDS at CDC. "But we're taking the and 152,153 Americans had died. The number of new AIDS evidence seriously." The implicati6n of this news is that cases has been steadily increasing, with 47,457 new cases in blood transfusions which were formerly considered safe, the last year alone. may not be so. By the end of 1994, as many as 535,000 cases are expect­ Gerald Myers of the Los Alambs National Laboratory ed to have been reported in the United States, with as many in New Mexico pointed out that AliDS viruses mutate with as 385,000 fatalities, according to Curran. In addition, the extraordinary speed, and so far, HJ1V-l alone has spawned number of Americans living with AIDS or other diseases five different strain groups. When asked if this could be the caused by HIV will continue to increase. The proportion of first sign of a third AIDS virus, Myers said, "If an HIV-3 increase will be greatest among the poor and minorities. were to appear, it would . . . fail to respond to standard A report fromDr. Philip Rosenberg of the National Can­ tests," just as the other strains have done. cer Institute, written in theJournal of the American Medical This seemed to confirm the gloomy predictions of an Association. had similar figures. Made public in Amsterdam Australian medical conference in Sydney the week before.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 7 "At the moment, we have classical conditions for the spread­ One experimental vaccine made from a genetically engi­ ing of some of the past plagues, particularly due to the disrup­ neered version of the gp120 protein, which serves as the tion of normal populations," Frank Fenner, professor of mi­ envelopeof the AIDS virus, waswell tolerated by volunteers crobiology at Canberra's John Curtin School of Medical who received it and produced a variety of positive responses, Research, told reporters. "We have refugees all over the reported Dr. Mary Lou Clem�nts of the Johns Hopkins Uni­ place living under very bad conditions, these are exactly the versity in Baltimore. sort of conditions under which pandemic plagues are likely Previous studies showed that the vaccine, made by Gen­ to occur." entech, Inc. of San Francisco, California, protected chim­ Fenner said that 20 years ago there were about 5 million panzees against one strain of the AIDS virus.In a new study, people classified by the United Nations as refugees, but now 28 uninfected humans received three injections of eitherone or two doses of the vaccine or a useless substitute. No serious side effects were reported, and 9 out of 10 volunteers who "ifyou lookat what's happening in received the highest dose of the vaccine produced a variety iifrica and what will happen inAsia, of positive immune system responses, including the produc­ tion of "neutralizing antibodies," which are proteins pro­ you have reasonto be very duced by the immune system that can kill HIV. pessimistic,"said Dr.Anthony Fauci, Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, also made a head ojthe U.S. govemmentAIDS speech to the conference regarding his work on a vaccine. But he disagreed with most other participantson the approach research fdJorts. ''All the signs that should be taken. Most of the scientists and companies indicate that the pandemic is not are working on a vaccine that would produce high levels of slowing down at all." protective antibodies.But Dr.Salk thinks what patients need is a lot of immune cells to kill the AIDS virus, which hides inside infected human blood cells. Therefore, he maintains, researchers should be working on bolstering the body's im­ he estimates that the number has increased tenfold. "We mune cells, as opposed to the �ntibodies which kill the HIV don't know what it [the plague] will be, or where it will be, virus. but there will be one, we only have to look at history, and He bases his approach on studies of people who success­ see the number of plagues that have occurred, wiping out fully threw off the AIDS virus·after exposure, including ba­ large numbers of the population," he warned. bies of infected mothers, and health care workers. Many were skeptical of such a viewpoint, and questioned his data. No cures seen this century He is now developing a vaccine made from an AIDS virus More than a decade after the first case of AIDS was that has been killed. diagnosed, there still is no word on a cure. Progress is far One note of caution was made by Dr. Karl-Otto Ha­ slower than scientists had predicted five years ago, yet they bermehl, director of Berlin's Institutefor Clinical and Exper­ insist that they have confidence that an effective vaccine can imental Virology at the Free University. He predicted great be developed by the mid-1990s. Even so, it is unlikely to be progress on a vaccine in the next year, but said that a preven­ widely available before the next century. tive vaccine would be easier to develop than a therapeutic One area of potential good news was given by Max Essex, one, designed to treat people aljready infected. a Harvard U ni versity researcher.He thinks real progress was Despite whatever progress is being made on the research being made in designing chemicals to outwit the HIV virus. end, the pace of the effort is not at all in step with the disease. Discoveries enabling researchers to infect monkeys with hu­ One person is infected every 15-20 seconds by WHO esti­ man AIDS should speed the process. Previously only chim­ mates, and yet Congress cut the budget for the National panzees and gibbons, both endangered species, could be in­ Institutes of Health by $150 m�llion. The United States now fected with HIV. ''I'm optimistic it will work," said Essex. spends $8 billion on biomedical research of all kinds, at a "The new monkey models offer a tremendous way to test time when new strains of diseases are developing, and old new products sooner." ones, such as tuberculosis, are resurging. In the United Dr.Daniel Hoth of the U.S. National Institutes of Allergy States, over 75% of the victims live in poverty,yet evidence and Infectious Diseases, which coordinates AIDS vaccine is ignored that links infection· to such "environmental co­ tests, also seemed optimistic. "The encouraging news is that factors." the more recent trials have shown a higher frequency of It is time to put an end to, the insanity of handing out neutralizing antibodies, which kill HIV directly." Approxi­ condoms as a cure-all to the worst plague the world has ever mately a dozen vaccines are now in various stages of testing seen, and instead to demand the political leadership that will in humans. fight for the survival of the whole human race.

8 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 cal, and medical networks who must lead the war to vanquish Documentation the AIDS virus. That the alternative to the LaRouche plan spells total defeat for mankind is underscored by how governments and the health establishment have let the situation get completely out of control. The LaRouche plan to As we have long warned,the brutal cost-cutting and sub­ human austerity policies of the internationalbanking institu­ defeat the AIDS virus tions and the tragic failure of the Reagan-Bush administration and allied governmentsto tell the truth about AIDS and com­ While officialsof both the Reagan and Bush administrations mit the resources to fight it, have allowed the 100% lethal have been guilty of gross negligence in respect to the AIDS disease and related pandemics to spread unchecked through pandemic, Lyndon H. LaRouche has distinguished himself all the continents of the globe. by fo reseeing the current crisis. In 1973, LaRouche put to­ The willful intransigence of governmentsand institutions gether a biological holocaust taskforce to study what could to adopt traditional public health measures, such as mass be done to prevent mass disease outbreaks, which he said testing, has combined with a peculiar and devastating biolog­ would occur as a result of the austeritypolicies of the Interna­ ical feature of the AIDS virus itself-the very long "lag tional Monetary Fund.In October 1985 , in a statement an­ time," of 5-10 years or more, between infection and the onset nouncing his candidacy fo r the 1988 Democratic presidential of sickness.... Thus has much of the continent of Africa nomination, LaRouche declared AIDS to be "the most impor­ been devastated. Thus have America and Europe's once­ tant of the political issues threatening us right now." In invincible health infrastructures been overwhelmed. Thus November 1989, Warren]. Hamerman wrote the fo llowing, have the nations of Ibero-America been brought to the brink in a preface to an EIR Special Report on AIDS: of the needless death of millions. And thus has the killer virusestablished a beachhead in the vast, highly concentrated Within the immediate period ahead, mankind will reach the populations of Asia. point of no return on adopting one of the only two proposed Yet because of the biological lag time of the virus and concrete courses of action to deal with the out-of-control the policy of governments to consciously blind our public AIDS pandemic. health radar, all of the devastating map of AIDS we see today As he pledged to the American people in a June 4, 1988 is actually the after-shock of infections that occurred half a prime time national television broadcast, Lyndon H. decade to a decade ago. Those sick today were potentially LaRouche, Jr.'s science-intensive plan will lead to total vic­ infecting others throughout most or all of that half decade to tory over AIDS-the wiping of the virus from the face of the a decade. How many, and who, we do not know, because of Earth. the health establishment's policy. The alternativecourse proposed by [then-Surgeon Gener­ The EIR-proposed science-intensive war plan to fight al] Dr. C. Everett Koop, by the insurance companies, the AIDS is designed to: banks, governments, and the health establishment, in the a) Pump money into basic bio-medical research programs name of "cost containment," is to revive Nazi policies of to catalyze "crash" breakthroughs, through advancing our euthanasia ("mercy killing") and death camp "hospices" in­ understanding of life processes on a broad scientific front. stead of hospitals. This plan will doom the human species to Technology-intensive solutions area lways the most efficient a miserable end .... and least costly ways to solve problems. We remain optimistic that mankind will ultimately b) Upgrade and enhance the immunological disease-re­ choose victory over defeat. However, we must offer three sistance potential of populations through improving nutrition particular limiting conditions upon our philosophical op­ and sanitation, housing, and so forth. timism. c) Modernizeand augment both the skilled medical man­ 1) The choice for victory must be made and adopted in power and hospital facilities for a "surge" of health care time. delivery to populations. 2) The victory plan of a crash scientific, public health, d) Give doctors the advanced training and resources re­ and economic renaissance program must be adopted in its quired to fight disease, while liberating them from attack entirety and not selectively. through so-called malpractice insurance law suits. 3) The LaRouche victory plan must be directed by the Today ... we would only underscore what is at stake in designer of the plan-physical economist Lyndon H. the choice between these two alternatives,by identifying it LaRouche, Jr.-or it will not be perceivedas or in fact be a as a "global showdown" leading to mankind's total victory victorious "total war" effort, since LaRouche is the policy over a deadly disease threat under the LaRouche plan, or our "energizer" at the center of the internationalscientific, politi- total defeat as a species.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 9 'Abandon the liberal approach' In Russia, it is generally anticipated that Boris Yeltsin will soon sacrifice his IMF-linked economic policy czar Ye­ gor Gaidar, in order to save his own political skin. That has Revolt against'shock been forecast by Vladimir Tr�tyakov, editor-in-chief of the influential Nezavisimaya Gazeta, in an op-ed in France's Le therapy' gains in CIS Figaro daily July 23. Certain high-level sources in the West think it may already be too l�te for Yeltsin to do this, and by Mark Burdman that he himself will be out of power by October-November, a victim of the reaction against Gaidar's policies. Meanwhile, Russian influeqtials are putting forward some The backlash against International Monetary Fund "shock historically derived alternatives �othe IMF-Gaidar program.In therapy" austerity policies is growing throughout the "Slavic a July 21 pressconference in M�scow, formerMoscow deputy core" of the Community of Independent States, only days mayor Sergei Stankevich positively recalled the policies of after the July 6-8 Group of Seven meeting in Munich had Pyotr Stolypin, the Russian reformer whose assassination in formalized the demand that IMF policies be followed reli­ 1911 had set the seal on effec1iive "dirigist" policies and had giously in the formerly communist countries of central and help set in motion the develop$ents leading to the Bolshevik easternEurope. The backlash is tangible in Russia, Ukraine, takeover of power later in that d�e. Stolypin had, in particu­ and Belarus, the three countries whose leaders signed the lar,prioritized reforms in the alficultural sector. accord of Dec. 8, 1991, which formally ended the Soviet Stankevich called on Russja to "abandon the liberal ap­ Union and created the new CIS. proach" in both foreign and dpmestic policies. He rejected Of the three, Belarus is most explicit in its rejection of what he called the "liberal drctam," insisting that "a strong the "shock therapy" approach. In an interview with the central power" would be need¢ to promote a policy of "ac­ French daily Le Monde July 21, Belarus Prime Minister tive industrialism," defined as "capitalism with a very active Vyacheslav Kebich stated that his policy is "to hurry slowly," oversight by the state." Stankevich further said that any solu­ and to allow enterprises to "reorient themselves" to the new tion must take into account rpe special historical circum­ circumstances, rather than shutting them down and creating stances of Russia, since what[was now being rejected was massive unemployment. Stated Kebich: "We have, next to exclusive dependence on imported "western"models. Russia us, this horrible example of Poland, which has given in to must have a more Eurasian perspective,of balancing between shock therapy." He reported that he had received personal East and West. warningsduring two recent private meetings "from the mouth On July 17, a recently apPOinted economic adviser to of [Polish President] Lech Walesa, not to repeat [Poland's] the Yeltsin government, Yevgeny Yasin, had criticized the errors" in Belarus. tradition of "Adam Smith's invisible hand" that Gaidar and Kebich said he supports measures of "protectionism," in his team have tried to bring intQ Russia. "In Russia, you have order to protect the internal market. This, stressedLe Monde, got to have a visible hand," Y.sin proclaimed. "That is one is in violation of the "post-communist taboo" against this of the peculiarities of the systeJIl. You cannot just dismantle word. the state sector and let everything be done by the market. It Kebich had been in Paris on July 15-17, to attend a semi­ does not work here." This carne in the context of an angry nar sponsored by the Ministry of Finance and Economics on attack on Yegor Gaidar. the "modernization of the public sector in a market econo­ Advocates of the "shock tlIlerapy" model are frantically my." He welcomed French governmentsupport for his oppo­ trying to distance themselves mom HarvardUniversity's Jef­ sition to shock therapy, noting that the entire seminar "re­ frey Sachs. One high-level Polish collaborator of Sachs, dur­ volved around one, and only one, order of the day: 'don't ing a July 23 discussion, at tJ:1e mere mention of Sachs's rush.' " Le Monde quoted French Finance Minister Michel name, shrieked that politicians and economic policymakers Sapin, advising, "one can not privatize precipitously. To throughout formerly communi$t Central Europe and the for­ succeed, these operations must be carefully prepared." mer U.S.S.R. were "furious" atSachs's efforts to claim au­ Afterhis meetings in Paris, Le Monde noted, Kebich flew thorship for reform policies, and dismissed "this American on to Germany, for a dinner with German Chancellor Helmut economist" as "adventurous." : Kohl. A large German business delegation has recently been Since this individual's actual policies are no different in in Belarus. content from those of Sachs, the reaction shows how strong A parallel process is going on in Ukraine. The IMF's popular discontent against "s�ock therapy" has become. man in the Ukrainian government, Vladimir Lanovoy was Sachs is the lightning rod of re.entment in the nations trying removed over the July 11-12 weekend, and replaced by an to free themselves from both qommunist and Adam Smith­ opponent of shock therapy policies. free market legacies.

10 Economics ElK July 31, 1992 Promising opposition to IMFp0 1icies couldspark 'n ew Polish revolution' by Fr ank Hahn

Three yearsafter the defeat of communism in easternEurope , therapy program" was Harvard profe�sor Jeffrey Sachs and disappointment, bitterness, aggression, and apathy charac­ the IMF and the World Bank,who have overseen Poland's terize the situation in eastern Germany, Poland, the soon-to­ fulfillment of details of this horror scenario of poverty, dis­ disappear Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the former Soviet ease, and economic denudation. republics. Already three years ago, EIR warned that the ap­ Despite all the promises to break with this mercilessplun­ plication of the monetarist doctrine of the "free market," or, dering, there was no change in course even under the govern­ more precisely, of "rampant capitalism," would lead in short ment of formerPrime Minister JanOlszewski-and Suchocka order to even greater misery and economic ravages than com­ has already indicated her readiness to enforce the IMF condi­ munism had cause in its 40-70-year reign. But most refused tions. But thepatience of the Polish peoplehas reachedits limit. to heed those warnings. Solidamosc leader Lech Walesa and bis people have become Today's gruesome reality has proven us right: In eastern just as hated as were the communists who preceded him. The Germany, 50-80% of all jobs have disappeared, without any political and economic failure of the Solidamosc govern­ prospect in view of creating new ones. Poland and Russia ments--the circus-like, infantilesquabbling , intrigues, andper­ are experiencing an economic collapse which dwarfs that of sonal frictionsin the Sejm (the Polish Parliament}-have soiled 1931-32. Over the past two years,we spoke repeatedly about its revolutionary reputation. Ever since it became known that the betrayed revolution in the East, and repeatedly empha­ Solidamosc had received $1 billion from questionable Ameri­ sized that a second revolution was urgently needed-this can sources, while rumors of Wale�'s activities on behalf time against Anglo-American liberalism and the genocidal of the intelligence service of the fonner East German regime usury policy of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-so continue to gain strength, many politi�al observers in Warsaw that a new and just economic order could be established have come to believe that the days qf Walesa and his entire between North and South, based on the sovereignty of na­ Solidamosc movement are numbered. tions and individuals in keeping with the order of Creation. The time has come, when a new spark of revolutionary Deindustrialization and depqpulation courage, a new striving for truth, is being kindled-and just In an interview with this reporteI1, Professor Balcerek of as in 1980, it is coming from Poland first. the Warsaw College for Statistics aDd Planning laid out an When we consider that the struggle of the Solidarnosc extraordinarily precise and caustic �alysis of the current tradeunion was what set events into motion in 1980, leading situation. We quote from his commehts here: ultimately to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the "Sometime in the next six mont�s there will be a social collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991, then current develop­ explosion in Poland. The IMF rul� the country, and has ments in Poland represent a great hope for all Europe and the done so since 1971. That was when [President Eduard] Gier­ world. Nevertheless, Poland is only beginning the process. ek brought the IMF to Poland, and locked it into the vicious It is therefore all the more important to make the Polish cycle of indebtedness, high interest r�tes, and foreign depen­ freedom struggle into the cause of all civilized mankind, dence. The last communist governm�nt, that of [PrimeMin­ and to unite it with the freedom movement and presidential ister Mieczyslaw] Rakowski, put an even sharper edge on campaign of Lyndon LaRouche in the United States. With this policy, and all the non-commquist governments since that intent, we present the following report which reflectsthe [Prime Minister Tadeusz] Mazowie�ki have simply contin­ situation in Poland in early July 1992. ued this subjugation to the IMF dicta.orship. In reality, there­ Since August 1989 , Poland has had three governments fore, we see a continuity of policy from the communists which came out of the Solidarnoscmovement , and the fourth through their successors: At a certaijn point, primitive com­ one-under Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka-is just now munism was no longer in keeping with the times, and so they setting up shop. This interval has seen an unparalleled col­ simply changed the label. lapse in living standards. Under the infamous Finance Minis­ "What is the IMF'sgoal? It says it wants to promote the ter Leszek Balcerowicz, Poles' buying power was cut literal­ restructuring of industry. Now I'm f�r restructuring, too, but ly in half overnight, back in January 1990. Behind this "shock here we'reseeing industrybeing en�ly dismantled. The IMF

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 11 hasa malthusian program-itwants to reducePoland's popula­ happening? The storm warningsare already here: The weeks­ tion by tw�thirds, from 40 million today down to 15 million. long street blockades and protest actions by Polish farmers, You can calculate it yourself: Out of the 14 million employees and their occupation of the ..j\griculture Ministry, and the in industry, the IMP wants to keep only about 3-4 million, Upper Silesian miners' fight against the shutdown of their while in the fanning sector, out of the current 4 million, only mines, are harbingers of the qoming social ferment and un­ 500,000 to 1 million are to remain employed. The political rest. The long-term success ot such movements, and a revo­ parties currently governing Poland have one task alone: to over­ lution in the sense of establishing a just world economic see and implement this dismantling of our economy. order, however, are dependeQ.t on the quality of moral and "Please consider that most of these parties cannot finance intellectual leadership which puts itself at the head of these themselves on the basis of regular membership dues pay­ strike and protest movements. ments: Most of them only have about 2,000-3,000 members. At the moment, two organizations have been assuming Thus they are financed from abroad. And so you cannot this leadership role: the "Solidarity 80" and "AgriCUltural expect any policy change to come from the government or Self-Defense" movements. The great hope for Poland and the Parliament. We are told by the West, that we must de­ for Europe consists in the fact that both these movements are monopolize our economy. But just to mention one example profoundly different from all the other European trade union from the chemical sector: In one range of products we used and political movements, in lIhat they have been explicitly to have 14,000 employees working in eight different plants; directing their fight against the IMF and the World Bank. but now all this has been taken over by one western firm. Thus we now see in Poland tbe emergence of Europe's first While the cartellization becomes ever greater in the West­ mass movement against the IMF. just look at Fiat or GM-we are supposed to look on as our But they go one step further.Their attacks against popula­ industry is destroyed under the slogan 'de-monopolize.' tion reduction policies strike at the very core of the Anglo­ "Over the past year this dismantling has led to drastic American "new world order." Iro quote fromthe Declaration disruption of the national budget. Since over 80% of tax of Principles issued by Agricultural Self-Defense (in Polish: revenues used to come from state-owned factories, the col­ Samoobrona): lapse of these plants resulted in a deficit of 70 trillion zlotys "It is necessary to defend our fatherland, and indeed with [about $5 .4 billion]. And then the experts from the IMF tell reason, conscience, and 10veL .. . We are open to interna­ us: 'You have to balance the budget; you're spending too tional cooperation, but we do not want Poland to be subordi­ much for education and health.' What nonsense ! The prob­ nated to supranational interests which are leading to the im­ lem is not the high expenditures, but rather the low revenues poverishment of our nation and to the collapse of our identity. as a result of the dismantling policy. And against that 70 Among other things, we will , defend ourselves against the trillion zloty deficit,in 1991 some 40-60 trillion zlotys fled dictatorship of the World Bank and the International Mone­ the country, thanks to investors who transferred their profits tary Fund.. .. abroad. This year both the deficit and capital flight figures "We will not tolerate the utterbankruptcy of our industry will be somewhat higher. and the destruction of Polish lagriculture. We do not want "Foreigninvestors have invested up to 70% of their funds a 'flea market economy' whidh condemns Poland to being into Poland's service sector, i.e., paper circulation and spec­ flooded with shoddy foreign products and relegates Poland ulation, in league with dirty money, are sucking the Polish to the role Europe's garbage dQmp, the only place where you economy dry. The remaining 30% of ostensibly productive can still draw on a reservoir of cheap labor. We do not agree investments in many cases goes merely to buy up the looted with the use of primitive fo lklore as a substitute for true hulks of once viable firms at bargain prices, in order to put culture . . . nor with the sapping of our physical strength, Polish workers, at starvation wages, onto the extended work­ which will lead to a considerable reduction in our popula­ benches of western firms-something which has nothing to tion-onthe basis of the idea of depopulation which is being do with true economic development. " promulgated with ever increasing brazenness. " Balcerek's bitter summation: If there is no drastic change The declaration states that capitalism and the market very soon in present economic policy, then Poland will face economy are not ends in themselves. At the center of all a far worse fate than it did in 1795 after it was partitioned for economic activity must stand the human being, and thus the a third time. The Polish state ceased to exist then, whereas principle of scientificand technological progress. now the state's economy is being eliminated. The inevitable Similarly, the Solidarity 80 movement's economic phi­ outcome will be a social collapse which would take a very losophy is oriented toward Friedrich List and toward Catholic long time to reverse. social doctrine. This trade union split-off from the original Solidarnosc because it refused to go along with the IMP The resistance gets itself organized policy under Balcerowicz. This high level of political think­ Balcerek sees a social revolution as the only way out of ing in a mass movement is unique in recent history. While this predicament. But how realistic are the chances of this the danger of corruption is real� there is potential herefor an

12 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 revolution against the IMF. On the strike front, the Samoobrona farmers are focusing C ency Rates on ajust solution to the debt problem, in order to save produc­ urr tive farms from going bankrupt. In 1990, many farmers took up the government's offerto take onloans for the moderniza­ The dollar in deutschemarks i New York late afternoonfixing tion and expansion of their farms. That occurred at a point when the interest rates were 30%-relatively low by Polish 1.70 standards. As a sweetener, the governmentpromised to lower the interest rate to 12% in the near future . But the contrary 1.60 occurred: One year later, interest rates skyrocketed to 90%. The countryside was swept by a wave of forced-bankruptcy I.SO "'-'- - Ao. auctions; families and entire villages suffered indescribable '- human tragedies; many farmers committed suicide. 1.40 Samoobrona sought to prevent these forced-bankruptcy 1.30 auctions from taking place, and in one year built up a power­ 613 6110 6117 6124 711 7/8 7115 7122 ful organization of about 100,000 farmers . Meanwhile, the situation has been worsened by the flood The dollar in yen of cheap food imports from abroad, so that the most modern New York late afternoon fixing farms are now working only at 20% capacity. Already in April , farmers occupied the Agriculture Ministry to highlight 140 their demands for debt restructuring, import barriers, parity prices, etc . 130 In mid-June, farmers began blocking major highways in 120 and out of Warsaw. Despite police intervention, every major intersection around Warsaw had about 200 farmers who re­ 110 mained at the side of the road with their vehicles, as a warning should negotiations with the police and thegovernment fail. 100 c Then, on July 9-10, police moved with extreme brutality 613 6110 6117 6124 711 , 7/8 7115 7122 against these remaining partisans. At least 100 people were The British pound in dollars temporarily jailed. The next day, 500 farmers marched on New York late afternoon fixing the Parliament in protest.

The farmers ' actions have been increasingly coordinated 2.00 with railway workers, teachers, nurses, unemployed, and min­ ers. Indeed,the plight of the miners around Katowice is the next 1.90 � � flash-point. Under the leadership of Solidarity 80, hundreds of workers have been occupying the state mining administrative 1.80 """ building in Katowice since July 1, demanding that the Upper Silesianmining district not bedissolved as planned. The World 1.70 Bank has demanded that Poland shut down 51 of the 70 coal 1.60 mines in Katowice, which would mean that out of 364,000 613 6110 6117 6124 711 718 7115 7122 workers , 302,000 would become unemployed-without any prospects for alternate employment. The dollar in Swiss francs Put another way: Poland, which in 1984 was still ex­ New York late afternoon fixing porting 43 million tons of high-quality anthracite coal, is slated to become a net coal importer during this decade, so 1.60 that by the year 2010 it will be importing 27 million tons of I.SO coal each year. The state has already imposed export and production limits to that end. 1.40 i'-� - The demands of the workers' protest committee include: '--" -- revocation of the export limits, debt moratorium for the 1.30 �� I- mines, that various "punitive taxes" which have been dis­ couraging new investment be abolished, blocking the trans­ 1.20 formation of mines into stock corporations owned by single 613 6110 6117 6124 7Il� 7/8 7115 7122 individuals, and higher wages and pensions.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 13 The anatomy of Sweden's I banking deregulation debacle by William Engdahl

"The Swedish governmentis going to have to put in possibly restricted to lending at 100% collateral to local customers­ three or four times what they have so far, in order to bail out often farmers or homeowneI1s whom the local bank had Swedish banks before this is over," confided a Scandinavian known for generations-sudd�nly. were free to invest where banking source familiar with the ongoing Swedish real estate they wished. debacle. "After deregulation in the 1980s, many Swedish Overnight, small sparbanken (similar at that time to the banks lent to anything you could think of, in areas where in pre-1982 U . S. savings and loaD institutions) merged to create many cases they had no prior experience." "competitive" all-purpose banks. "Banks with no prior expe­ In 1991, Swedish banks totaled record loan losses of rience in commercial propeItyJ lending were suddenly major SKr 35 billion [roughly $6.6 billion] . By far the largest loser players in speculative real estate projects," K.-A. Olsen of was the state-controlled Nordbanken, with a hefty SKr 10.5 Copenhagen's U nibank told EJR. "Some of the actual stories billion in loan losses alone. Nordbanken has total loans out­ of lending terms by these new banks would astonish you." standing of some SKr 260 billion. Two of the banks which racked up the largest loan losses But more worrisome are the not-yet-realized potential last year, Foersta Sparbanken land Sparbanksgruppen, were loan losses of Swedish banks. Some Swedish private econo­ examples of such conglomerations of smaller sparbanken. mists estimate that it could take 5-10 years, or more, to digest Both banks had combined loan losses in 1991 of just over the glut of commercial office construction which grew in SKr 9 billion, an astonishing sum for Sweden's once-conser­ especially the west coast of the country over the past decade. vative banking sector. According to a recent study by Enskilda Fondkommission of Stockholm, the total volume of "problem loans" on the books The Nordbanken saga of Swedish banks in 1991 totaled an all-time high of SKr 91 The speculative boom came to an abrupt haltat the end of billion, some 10% of total bank loans. 1990, when the governmentaQd the centralbank (Riksbank) But far from expecting improvement this year, Enskilda took steps to "shadow" or peg the kroner to the European estimates that sum will go beyond SKr 150 billion by the end Monetry System's currency bloc, specifically the German of December. The vast bulk of these loans are being held deutschemark, as preparation fureventual Swedish member­ by the banks in desperate hope of an upturn in Sweden's ship in the European Community (EC) . With no capital re­ depressed economy. Ironically, it was a socialist govern­ strictions and an overvalued kToner, the Riksbank has more ment, under Olof Palme and later Ingvar Carlsson, which than once, since then, been fotted to raise short-term rates to opened the door to financial market deregulation during the 17% or more to stabilize the kr<)ner against the deutschemark. 1980s-in the same way that Jimmy Carter's Democratic The resultof the high interest rates was a predictable collapse administration initiated banking deregulation in the United of the domestic real estate bubble by the end of 1990. States. The first real indication of the dimension of the Swedish property problems erupted last autumn, days after the elec­ Biggest real estate bubble in history tion of a new conservative coalition under Prime Minister Traditionally Sweden had one of Europe's most conser­ Carl Bildt. The large statetcontrolled Nordbanken an­ vative banking sectors and defaults were almost unheard of. nounced huge real estate-linked losses tied to the collapse of By the time the Ingvar Carlsson governmentlifted finalcapi­ Gamlestaden AB, Nobel Indu$trier AB, and Yggdrasil AB, tal controls on Swedish banks and companies at the end of all three linked to Nordbanken minority shareowner Erik the 1980s, the biggest speculative real estate bubble in the Penser. The bank told the new government it needed an country's history was fully under way. emergency SKr 5 billion capital injection to keep afloat and During the series of measures introduced by Social Dem­ prevent a panic run on deposits. ocratic Finance Minister Kj ell Olof Feldt, in the mid-1980s, At that point, according tOiwell-informed Stockholm fi­ Sweden's traditional rural mortgage banks, which had been nancial sources, Finance Minister Anne Wibble and the Bildt

14 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 gQvernment, with a strong "Thatcherite" free market bias, bank," "bad bank" system. were initially inclined to, let the bank fend fQr itself. But Securum will be the "bad bank," hQlding mQst Qf NQrd­ reportedly, a cQnference call with Riksbank GQvernQr Bengt banken's defaulted real estate PQrtfQlio.NQrdbanken deputy Dennis, at the time in BangkQk attending the annual meeting directQr Lars Thunell will run the Securum QperatiQn until Qf the InternatiQnal MQnetary Fund, "persuaded" the gQvern­ January."Securum thus will becQme one Qf the largest Qwn­ ment that failure to, step in with an immediate bailQut Qf the ers Qf real estate in Sweden, and will hQld many prQperties bank WQuid risk a dQminQ-effect crisis, nQt merely in the abroad including hQliday reSQrts in Marbella and LQndo,n Swedish banking sectQr, but PQssibly internatiQnally.Dennis properties," Anderkro,naadded. alSo, sits as present chairman Qf the central bankers' Bank fQr The idea is that, with a capital inftisio,n Qf SKr 20 billio,n InternatiQnal Settlements. from Parliament, vQted in mid-June, Securum will have suf­ While the Riksbank WQuid nQt CQmment Qn the issue, ficient capital to, be able to, ride o,ut the sto,rmuntil real estate Anders Salen, head Qf the gQvernment bank regulatQry prices reco,ver.But no,t everyo,ne is co,nvinced.One Sto,ck­ agency, Finans InspektiQnen, did say that it was his persQnal ho,lm banker, who, asked to, be ano,nymo,us, said, "Peo,ple view at the time Qf the NQrdbanken crisis last autumn, that a believe this SKr 20 billio,n will be enpugh to, fill the 'gap' in "majQr crisis was imminent" unless swift and decisive gQV­ the bank's Io,an IQsses.But this is o,nlya minimum needed to, ernment interventiQn to, restQre depositQr cQnfidence was extend the life o,f Securum and prevent the all-Qut death o,f taken. Sweden's property market." The gQvernment has been taking such steps ever since. While no,Qne likes to,speak abQut it, Sweden is Qne Qf the few Bankers are worried OECD cQuntries which has no,system Qf depQsit insurance in And so,me o,f Sweden's healthier private banks such as place, meaning a cQnfidence crisis in any single large bank Handelsbanken are up in arms o,ver the preferential SKr 20 CQuid rapidly becQme systemic. billio,n bailo,ut fo,r Securum.Handelsbanken chairman Arne But the gQvernment's NQrdbanken capital injectiQn last Maartensso,n,also, Swedish Banking AssQciatio,n president, fall didn't sQlve much.By the end Qf the first trimester (Janu­ has called the go,vernmentaid a direct hit against o,therhealth­ ary-April) Qf this year, NQrdbanken had recQrded anQther ier banks. SKr 2 billiQn in IQan IQsses.And this was befQre the giant Ano,ther scheme which No,rdbank-Securum's Thunell is GQthenburg property group AB CQronadQ cQllapsed in early pro,PQsingis creatio,no,f special new "j unk bo,nds"to, take the June.CQrQnadQ, Sweden's third largest property cQnglQmer­ pressure o,ff Sweden's banks, allo,wing them to, buy time fo,r ate, had SKr 9.3 billiQn in debts. Its two, largest creditQrs a future property reco,very.Under the scheme, banks Wo,uld were NQrdbanken and Sweden's largest private bank, S-E­ co,nvert so,me SKr 50 billio,n in wo,rst-case real estate Io,ans Banken.The day CorQnadQ failed, Swedish bank share prices into, lO-year bo,nds.Fo,r the firstseveral years until the eCQno,­ plunged yet IQwer Qn the StQckhQlm stQck exchange. my reco,vers, and the properties can be So,ld at a profit, no, interest Wo,uld be paid bo,ndho,lders.No,rdbanken says it has The government rescue plan successfully tried the bo,nd scheme o,n so,me properties in NQrdbanken sPQkesman Mikael AnderkrQna said that a Go,thenburg. gQvernmentrescue plan, firstmade public at the end Qf June, HQwever, so,meanalysts o,f the Swedish real estate secto,r is gQing ahead Qn schedule. "On Sept. 1, the new entity, expect recQvery will take mQre than a decade.Already since Securum, will start business, still a part Qf NQrdbanken.In the crisis began in late 1990, Swedish property prices have January next year, Securum will then be split from NQrdban­ fallen SQme 40%, the wo,rst in histo,ry. ken, which then will again be a healthy bank.Securum will But with no, depo,sit insurance, the WQrst banking crisis stay in state hands." The gQvernment hQpes to, clean up the in its histo,ry, and the wo,rst do,mestic eco,no,mic depressio,n remaining NQrdbanken fQr sale to, a fQreign buyer. since the 1930s the Bildt go,vernment has little roo,m to, ma­ Securum is the name Qf the entity proPQsed by the gQvern­ neuver. This is co,mpo,unded by pressures fo,r Sweden to, ment at end April this year, afterWibble and the gQvernment "harmo,nize" key value-added tax (VA T) Po,licies with the became infQrmed that the bank's IQsses were mQunting EC, as a preco,nditio,nfo,r membership.With the 1992 budget alarmingly. The name was clearly chQsen to, give a public deficit likely to, to,P 7% o,f Gross DQmestic Product, so,me image Qf security to, potential investQrs, but the assets Qf SKr 110 billio,n, and unemplo,yment SUPPo,rt to, Co,st up to, Securum-billiQns in bankrupt cQnstructiQn projects-will SKr 25 billio,n, the go,vernment must also, begin to, reduce be "secure" Qnly thrQugh an Qpen-ended QbligatiQn Qn the Sweden's stiff 25% VAT. A cut to: o,nly 20% VAT Wo,uld highly taxed Swedish PQPulatiQn to, bail Qut the wQrthless mean revenue IQSS o,f so,meSKr 15 billio,n.With the go,vern­ speculative boondQggles.The Securum idea, nQt surprising­ ment ideQIo,gically IQcked into, a tQQ-high kro,ner,Sweden's ly, carne frQm U.S.bank bailQut "experts." Wibble flew to, traditio,nal eXPo,rt eco,no,my is suffering even mo,re than no,r­ WashingtQn fQr emergency cQnsultatiQns with U.S. banking mal, further delaying reco,very.We, have no,t heard the last Qfficials and returned with a proposal fQr a U.S.-style "gQQd from the Swedish banking crisis.

EIR July 31, 1992 Eco,no,mics 15 available to EIR . Philip Fishman, head of the Asia-American Labor Institute (AFLI) of the AFL-CIO in Bangkok before returning to the U.S. to become head of the AFL-CIO Inter­ national Division, says he trained all of the labor leaders who played a role in Thailand's pro-democracy demonstrations. Mahathirsa ys labor He added that in Indonesia and Thailand it was necessaryfor AFLI to set up an operation, but that in Malaysia there is leaders aretraitors "clearly a stronger and more sophisticated labor movement than you find in either IndoneSia or Thailand. One reason we by Lydia Cherry didn't have a full program there is because we didn't need to--wehad counterparts there� and we could develop a frater­ nal relationship there without needing to open up an office." Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammed lam­ This is the destabilization operationthat Mahathir is now basted his country's Trade Union Congress on July 10, call­ identifying. Once the big poWers classified Korea, Taiwan, ing its leaders "traitors" because they "discreditedMalaysia" Hong Kong, and Singapore as newly industrializing coun­ at last month's International Labor Organization conference tries (NICs), he charged in his article, "they identified the in Geneva. The prime minister emphasized that the union comparative advantages of these countries as low labor cost, leaders had let themselves be used by western labor unions authoritarian governments, low currency value, and protec­ "bent on seeing Malaysians lose their jobs, and fail in the tion for local industries as well as domestic markets. Pressure country's economy." by the Group of Seven industrial countries and the World Along with the prime minister's strongly worded state­ Bank resulted in the currencies of the NICs being revalued ment, the Malaysian daily New Straits Times published a rare upwards. More pressure was appliedin order to openup their article authored by the prime minister that placed the labor domestic markets . Immediately, these NICs became less "operation" in the context of the much larger strategic game competitive. Industrial and political unrest reduced produc­ to "obstruct the industrialization process in the developing tivity. Higher wages paid in the revalued currency increased countries." Tracing the history of Third World countries' the unit cost of products. The cost of living rose rapidly, largely unsuccessful attempts to industrialize, Mahathir negating the higher income received by the workers. charged that the big powers were "so sure . . . that devel­ "Having succeeded in obs1iructing the development of the oping countries outside of Europe and America would not be NICs, the rich developed countries are not going to wait until able to master their technology that they were quite compla­ the other developing countries reach the stage of the NICs. cent when Japan tried to industrialize." Once Japan succeed­ They reasoned that it is easier and more effective to act early ' ed , however, and was rapidly followed by South Korea and while these countriesare very weak." Taiwan, "the developed countries decided to obstruct the The cost of living in Malaysia, he pointed out, is about a industrialization process in the developing countries. It was third of that in most developed countries. "It is therefore too late to do anything about Japan," Mahathir adds , but wrong to compare the exchange value of the wages of a "by stirring up industrial unrest and demanding an end to Malaysian worker or executive with that of workers in the undemocratic rule, they set the stage of economic and politi­ developed countries. . . . Our only advantage is our low­ cal instability." cost labor and our low cost of living. If we lose it, then we will be a permanently poor developing country." The targeting of Malaysia "Working through international labor organizations, the The destabilization of Thailand in May was projected to leaders of the labor unions gained influence over the leaders be but the beginning of the destabilization of the Association of unions in developing coudtries.... The leaders of the of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Next on the hit-list trade unions in the rich countries were able to lend legitimacy are Indonesia and Malaysia, according to James Clad, a and moral strength to their objective of preventing the devel­ member of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, in comments oping countries from competing with them; they argued that reported in the Washington Post. The labor component of developing countries were not competing fairly because they the current "democracy"game being imposed on developing do not pay their workers fair wages. That the developing countries has been fine-tuned over many years . The Interna­ countries have to pay the developed countries for their tech­ tional Labor Organization, which Mahathir cites, originated nology, management expertise and cost of capital and are, with the League of Nations of the 1920s , and is now an arm therefore , at a disadvantage when competing with the devel­ of the United Nations . The ILO works closely with the AFL­ oped countries are ignored. CIO. "At all times, everyone must be aware that when wolves A top-level AFL-CIO operative discussed the "strength" offer to escort Red Riding H()()d, the little girl can end in the of Malaysian labor leaders in an interview recently made stomach of the wolves," the prime minister concluded.

16 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 Eustace Mullins, thegreat betrayer

Populism is an oligarchic construct, no more popular than the jteemar ket" is free. William Bohdan provides a commentary on a widely read' book.

Every human being's analyses and conclusions are based on victims of the same irrational concept of God and Jesus that certain underlying assumptions, often unconsciously made they have of economics; their concept of blind faith deni­ by that person. In this book-which attacks the Federal Re­ grates the divine gift of human reason, grantedto man as the serve System as the treason it is, but wrongly ascribes it highest of God's creatures in order to enable him to assist in to the heritage of Alexander Hamilton-Eustace Mullins's the further development of the natural universe, in favor of underlying assumption is that the British-tainted utopian pop­ the infantile craving for a simplistic, magical view of the ulist democracy is good for us. This underlying assumption universe which is reducible to the limits of their own minds. is false, and, therefore , Eustace Mullins's book The Great Similar irrational assumptions induce belief in an "inter­ Betrayal is a fraud. national Jewish conspiracy," another fraud perpetuated by Although Mullins appeals to a Christian readership, nei­ the oligarchy through such political; networks as the British ther God nor his Son, Jesus Christ, have ever acted democrat­ Israelites, the Social Credit Party, the League of Rights, the ically. Christianity is not democratic (popular opinion); it Freemasons (the British Duke of Kent is Grandmaster of communicates a set of moral precepts by which man must London's Grand Lodge). While a cabal of nominally Jewish direct his activity so as not to be contrary to God's natural families has historically acted as the collector of usurious laws in his rationally ordered universe, and thereby not bring interest income on international bank loans (interest rates destruction upon himself. set in the so-called free market!), they have always been The irrationalityof populism is exemplified byt he J acob­ considered expendable by their oligarchist masters, ready in mobs that terrorized France around 1790, supposedly to to be scapegoated and persecuted in the event of economic rid that nation of an oppressive economic system. These depression. Shakespeare's Merchant o/ Venice. in which the mobs were organized by the very oligarchs who caused the Jewish usurer Shylock is ultimately an expendable pawn of oppression. This populist rage was turned against the people the Venetian oligarchy, was a polemical exposure of this who weretrying to get the country prospering through scien­ arrangement. tific and industrial development, namely, the Marquis de Another irrational assumption is that the Earthhas limited Lafayette, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, and other members of resources and that our economic system must reflect that. the French branch of the Society of Cincinnatus (Alexander Hence arethe origins of population control, balancing federal Hamilton and George Washington formed the American budgets, populism, Social Credit's national dividends, etc.; branch) . The storming of the Bastille by the J acobin mobs in ideas representative of shallow thinkers, not of the true pro­ 1789 caused the release of only six prisoners, all common found man that "God created . . . in his own image" (Gen. criminals, not the multitude of political prisoners, as our 1:27). Since God the Creator is unlimited, is it reasonable lying history books claim. that his creation as a whole would have limits? No, and that In economics, British populist democracycenters around is why God said to man, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and an immoral system misnamed the "free market" system replenish the earth, and subdue it" (Gen. 1:28). God did not (more aptly described as the "flea market" system), which say "use it wisely because it is limited" (today's popUlism of was written to directly counter the American System of eco­ stewardship). There can be no ambiguity that the directive nomics defended by the Founding Fathers of the United to "replenish the earth" meant that man's intervention in the States and later given policy form by George Washington's earth had the potential to improve lit and not deplete it, as first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. (Years later, would be reasonable for entities (mankind) "created in his Hamilton's system became called the American System of own image." Political Economy.) The fact that many who call themselves Christians today, Adam Smith the. evil especially of the "fundamentalist" variety, believe in the free The free market system was developed by a paid agent market system is not a justification for it; it is, in fact, the of the British East India Company oalled Adam Smith, as an very reason to condemn it. These particular Christians are attempt to maintain the British colonialist looting system.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 17 The immorality of this system stems from the immorality of worships, in violation of the First Commandment: Adam Adam Smith. The following quote comes from his book, Smith's "magic of the marketplace." The Bible clearly Theory of the Moral Sentiments (1759): equates any magic with the workings of Satan. "The administration of the great system of the universe ...the care of universal happiness of all rational and sensi­ Hamiltonian economics ble beings, is the business of God and not of man. To man Alexander Hamilton's drive for a strongcentral govern­ is allotted a much humbler department, but one much more ment was spurred primarily by the grossinadequacies of the suitable to the weakness of his powers, and the narrowness Articles of Confederation adopted shortly after the Declara­ of his comprehension; the care of his own happiness, of that tion of Independence. The Articles gave no power to Con­ of his family, his friends, his country ....But though we gress (made up of only state representatives) to create curren­ are endowed with a very strong desire of these ends, it has cy, credit, or loans, or to levy laxes to pay for its operating been entrusted to the slow and uncertain determinations of costs, including money for th¢ establishment of a suitable our reason to find the proper means of bringing them about. army and navy. As a result, by the conclusion of the Revolu­ Nature has directed us to the greater part of these by original tionary War, Congress had accumulated a debt of $79 million and immediate instincts: Hunger, thirst, the passion which with no power to pay it off. The states had the exclusive unites the two sexes, the love of pleasure, and the dread of rights to establish currency aDd lending. This resulted in pain, prompt us to apply these means for their own sake, very difficult and confusing interstate commerce due to the and without any consideration of their tendency to those different and fluctuating values1 0f each of the 13 states' cur­ beneficent ends which the great Director of Nature intended rencies. Therefore, it was obvious to statesmen like Hamilton to produce by them." In other words, Adam Smith viewed that the central government had to be significantly strength­ man as an animal. And, this is the man whose economic ened if this republic was to sunliveand prosper. philosophy many would-be Christians, obviously Mullins For Mullins to conclude from these effortsthat Hamilton included, worship ! was somehow supporting a British or European oligarchy It is no coincidence that Smith published An Inquiry into exposes his spotty and superficial reading of the Federalist the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, the Papers (500pages in paperbackedition) , two-thirds of which year of American independence. He was struggling furiously, are papers written by Hamilton. Although Mullins's book in the pay of the British East India Company, to counter the has no bibliography, the slant of his analysis indicates that dirigist (government-directed) system of national economics. he gets most of his information from works written by the Smith's oligarchical masters feared the U.S. would rise above apologists of Thomas Jefferson, the real traitor to the new­ that of being solely a raw materials supplier to Britain. Even in born republic. the U.S., the enemies of a strong central government, like Certainly, any rational readjng of Federalist Papers No. James Madison, would quote on the floor of Congress from 11 and No. 12 (written by Hamilton) makes Hamilton's noble Adam Smith's books to back up their arguments. intentions obvious. For example, here are three quotes from So, using his underlying assumptions, how does Eustace paper No. 11: Mullins propose we deal with the poor and destitute, not just in our own country, but in all the countries of the Third There are appearances to atrthorize a supposition that World as well? Mullins plays on the semantics of the"general the adventurous spirit, which distinguishes the com­ welfare" clause in the U. S. Constitution as the cause of the mercial character of America, has already excited un­ degeneration of the U. S. work ethic and the bankruptcy of easy sensations in several of the maritime powers of the U.S. government, i.e., the out-of-control U.S. welfare Europe. They seem to be apprehensive of our toogreat system. What does Mullins, the so-called citizen-statesman, interference in that carrying trade, which is the support propose as a solution to these problems-faith in the free of their navigation and the foundation of their naval market system? That is the implication from his book, al­ strength. Those of them which have colonies in though he is very vague on solutions. I suggest he read James America look forward to wbat this country is capable 2: 17 for a lesson on the value of faith without works: of becoming with painful solitude. They foresee the "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily dangers that may threaten their American dominions food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye and would possess all the means requisite to the cre­ warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those ation of a powerful marine., Impressions of this kind things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? would naturally indicate the policy of fostering divi­ Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." sions among us and of depriving us, as far as possible, The reason America's poor have no work ethic or motiva­ of an active commerce in our own bottoms. This would tion is because they continually see noble work efforts sub­ answer the threefold purpose of preventing our interfer­ verted by the workings of the economic system that Mullins ence in their navigation, of monopolizing the profitsof

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 18 our trade, and of clipping the wings by which we might nomic system which is in harmony with the natural laws soar to a dangerous greatness. of God the Creator. [EIR's Jan. 3, 1992 issue was entirely Under a vigorous national government, the natural dedicated to the bicentennial of Hamilton's Report-ed.] strengths and resources of the country, directed to a Mullins's only reference to this report is a quote from the common interest, would baffle all the combinations of New York Times (mouthpiece of the American Eastern Estab­ Europeanjealousy to restrain our growth. lishment, and the declared enemy of morality in economics) The world may politically, as well as geographical­ quoting Hamilton. ly, be divided into four parts , each having a distinct set Hamilton and his adherents , su¢h as Henry Carey, also of interests. Unhappily for the other three, Europe , by identified that the "harmony of interests" among industry, her arms and by her negotiations, by force and by agriculture, and labor produced the maximum prosperity of fraud, has in different degrees extended her dominion over them all. Africa, Asia, and America have succes­ sively felt her domination. The superiority she has long Mullins needs to read Hamilton's maintained has tempted her to plume herself as the Report on the Subject Manufactures mistress of the world, and to consider the rest of man­ of kind as created for her benefit. Men admired as pro­ to discovera truly moral and (jfe ctive found philosophers have in direct terms attributed to economic system which is in her inhabitants a physical superiority and have gravely harmonywith the nat¥ral laws qf asserted that all animals, and with them the human species, degenerate in America-that even dogs cease God the Creator. Mullins's only to bark after havingbreathed awhile in our atmosphere. rf!ference to it is aquote jromthe New Facts have too long supported these arrogant preten­ Yo rk Times (mouthpieCe qfthe sions of the European. It belongs to us to vindicate the honor of the human race, and to teach that assuming American EastemEstablishment. brother moderation. Union will enable us to do it. Dis­ and the declared enemy qfmorality union will add another victim to his triumphs. Let in economics). Americans disdain to be instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen states, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system superior to the control of all a nation. Civilized society is not governed by Darwinian transatlantic force or influence and able to dictate the laws; one man's gain is not another man's loss in a morally terms of the connection between the old and the new run economy. Adam Smith's "magic of the marketplace" world ! strips economies of morality. Every time the U. S. moved in the direction of Hamiltoni­ How can Mullins conclude that a man who writes with an economics it prospered. Two of the best examples are the such patriotic passion be a traitorto America; unless Mullins periods in which Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy is deliberately attempting to twist the truth? Giving Mullins were Presidents. But, as soon as the oligarchs and one-world­ the benefitof the doubt, it is probably his blind obsession with ers saw that their system was beibg cast aside, they had the free market system (there's that underlying assumption both these Presidents assassinated (unless someone is gullible again!) that causes his impotence in not recognizing that enough to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy). a strong central bank and strong central government could The same economic miracle occurred in the U.S. during its operate outside of the influence of the oligarchs' financial mobilization by Franklin D. Roosevelt for World WarII (up power. until then, Roosevelt used the same self-devouring socialist The importanceof a strong national bank is very evident policies that our present "leaders"i are ramming down our today when we see the Bank of Canada and the U. S. Federal throats). Fortunately forthe oligarchs, he died at the end of Reserve, neither of which answer to the elected officials, the war (although some people believe that Roosevelt was taking their orders from the big private domestic and interna­ slowly poisoned to death). As soon: as he was buried, all his tional banks. Mullins agrees with this analysis of the Federal Hamiltonian economic policies were dumped and replaced Reserve, but, without substantiation, claims that Hamilton's with those of Adam Smith. First National Bank was designed to operate in the same Japan is the only country that !has a national policy of fashion. operating under the Hamiltonian, dirigistic system of Mullins needs to read Hamilton's Report on the Subject economics and look at the results ! Japan has surpassed of Manufactures to discover a truly moral and effective eco- the U. S . as the biggest industrial power.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 19 True wealth of nations can philosophy upon which the U. S. Constitution was formu­ The true source of a nation's wealth is not the amount of lated. In a July 5, 1814 letter toJ cbhn Adams, Jefferson wrote: its gold, silver, or paper money, but the creative potential of "I amused myself with reading !\eriously Plato's Republic. I its citizens. This creative potential is converted to physical am wrong, however, in calling it amusement, for it was the wealth through the rational and adequate provision of bank heaviest task I ever went through." credits , governmentbon ds, or loans to enterprising individu­ He expressly hated Plato, and Plato's great work, The als (or firms) for productive projects; projects that produce Republic. To quote again from �e Campaigner article: staple goods for consumers or capital goods for other indus­ "In the letter, Jefferson revealed that his hatred of Plato tries. Paper or metal currency is useful only for citizens' stemmed from Plato's ability to �xplicate the creative side of daily purchases of normal provisions, non-capital goods and human mentation as the lawful process of reason; in other services. They are only used to make the barter system more words , the recognition that m� is unique from the beasts efficient. True wealth being the creative potential of men is because he can act creatively to advance the development of the only rational definition for anyone who uses the Holy mankind as a whole, and that this contribution to humanity Bible and Christianity as philosophical references; the refer­ is what definesthe individual's immortality, his soul. Jeffer­ ence sources provided by God the Creator. son, embracing the mechanistic credo of Aristotle, Plato's It is through the development of great projects in energy, mortal enemy, and his followers Locke, Francis Bacon, water supply, infrastructure, agriculture, and heavy industry Newton, and Rousseau, was committed to stamping out the that western nations will be able to pull themselves and the creative side of man" (emphasis added). rest of the world out of an otherwise New Dark Age. Another proof of President Jefferson's allegiance to the Lyndon H. LaRouche is the only present-day statesman European oligarchyis his choice of treasurysecretary , Albert who is actively pushing to have the United States and the rest Gallatin, Swiss aristocrat and protege of Jacques Necker, the of the world implement the American System of Political man who destroyed France with ,his economic policies. And Economy. He is now injail in the United States on erroneous again, Jefferson's vice president was Aaron Burr, who was charges, railroaded by the political heirs of the same U.S. later tried fortreason afterleadi dg a mercenary army against bluebloods who organized the assassination of Alexander the United States. Gallatin and Burr represent the quality of Hamilton by Aaron Burr. the crowd around Jefferson and rhirrored his own treasonous tendencies. Thomas Jefferson, the real traitor Jefferson's one and only book, Notes on the State of In his book The Great Betrayal, Mullins states that Nich­ Virginia, echoes Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in its vi­ olas Biddle (another Hamiltonian statesman) was acting as cious polemic against the industrialization of America andin an agent of the Rothschilds when he chartered the Second its glorification of rural backwardness. Bank of the United States in 1823. Where is your evidence A "great betrayal" is committed by Eustace Mullins for or your references for this statement, Mullins? These sorts writing a book that further emb¢ds falsehoods in the minds of statements are typical of Mullins's book, totally vacant of of many of its readers who are gullible enough to believe bibliography; typical of writings based on opinion and not Mullins's populism. fact (unless, of course, we are to believe that Mullins was an eyewitness to the events of 200 years ago) . The real traitor of the American republic was Thomas References 1980 Mullins, Eustace, The Great Betra l, National Commission for Judi­ Jefferson. As Donald Phau wrote in the March issue of w' Campaigner magazine in an article titled, "The Treachery of cial Refonn, Staunton, Virginia, 1991. Chaitkin, Anton, Treason in AmeriCa. New Benjamin Franklin House, ' Thomas Jefferson": New York, 1985. "Jefferson joined forces with a group of Southern oli­ The Constitution of the United Staff!S of America. National Archives garchs who were collaborating with England's Lord Shelbur­ and Records Administration, Washingto\l, D.C., 1986. Council on Public Affa irs Digest. July-August 1991 , Council on Public ne to destroy the Constitution ....Jefferson rejected the Affairs, Salmon Ann, British Columbia. idea of an American republic, and instead favored a loose A Declaration by the Representativ�s of the United States of America. alliance of states through which the absolute hegemony of the Photocopyof original document, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. Douglas. Allen, "Behind the Australian League of Rights: Malthusian­ British dominated Southern aristocracy would be maintained ism and Gnosticism," Executive Intelligttnce Review, Feb. 28, 1992. . . . the Jeffersonians called for a second Constitutional Con­ Hamilton, Alexander; Madison, James; Jay, John, The Federalist Pa­ vention to amend the original." pers. New American Library. New York, 1961. Khouri , Bruce M., "In Defense of Alexander Hamilton," The New Jeffersonin 1797 wrote the Kentucky Resolutions, which Federalist. July 14. 21, and 27. 1989. were effectively the Constitution of the Southern Confedera­ The New American Encyclopedia. The Publishers Agency, Brussels, cy. Thus Jefferson can properly be called "the founding fa­ Belgium. Phau, Donald, "The Treachery of ThomasJeffers on," The Campaign­ ther of the Southern Confederacy and of the Civil War." er. March 1980. Jefferson was, in fact, unable to comprehend the republi- Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Natio�, Penguin Books, 1982. ·

20 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 Dateline Mexico by Carlos Cota Meza

NAFTA and the All-Star game Mexican government and Pemex it­ With the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico is self had been subject to "pressures of every kind to gain access to that im­ destined to become a new "star" on the Americanflag . mense source Of wealth and profit." Salinas handed over Mexico's oil vir­ tually from the Jack Murphy "dug­ out." DesPite suffering the humiliating protests came off like a pathetic slow At the same time, Mexico an­ slings and arrows of a hyperactive grounder to the pitcher. nounced that it will reclassify six of George Bush, Mexican President Car­ Resentful at not being treated like the remaining 19 petrochemical prod­ los Salinas de Gortari got what he a major leaguer, a miffed Salinas told ucts still under Pemex' s control-the wanted during his July 14 meeting in the Spanish news agency EFE a cou­ third reclassification in six years. In San Diego, California with his U.S. ple of days later that "it is the negotia­ 1986, some 36 products were affect­ counterpart: a definitive declaration tions themselves which will determine ed, and 14 in 1989. Now, the products . that the trilateral North American Free the pace [of NAFTA], and not any still handled by Pemex are reduced to Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would be fixed date that we never established." 13. signed this year, and that the U.S. The president of the Mexican Senate's Also on July 14, U.S.Agriculture electoral process would not be al­ trade commission, Carlos Sales Gu­ Secretary Edward Madigan an­ lowed to interfere in negotiating the tierrez, officially responded to Bush nounced that his country and Mexico pact.This , of course, is the fundamen­ that "there could be extra innings in had agreed "to eliminate tariff and tal requirement for keeping that illu­ case there is a tie at the end of the ninth non-tariff barriers on all products of sion known as the "Mexican miracle" inning." bilateral trade. , ..Not only in agri­ fromgoing to hell. And yet, the next day, U.S.Trade culture, but ih all U.S.-Mexican Throughout the San Diego meet, Representative Carla Hills declared in trade." All thatremained, he empha­ Bush ignored all protocol and behaved San Antonio, Texas that NAFTA sized, was to set the specifictimetable like a bull in a china shop, anxious "will be signed this year, but because for this "total liberalization." only to clinch the deal and get back to of the congressional calendar won't One day later, several U.S. news- . the campaign reelection trail.Thus, in go into effect until 1993." papers published that Mexico "has response to protests fromthe Mexican There is little question that the agreed to open its banks and its insur­ government (presented however re­ electoral process in the United States ance, finance, and real estate agencies luctantly by Salinas) regarding the will intervene in the NAFTA talks­ to U.S. and Canadian companies as U.S. Supreme Court ruling authoriz­ to push it along and to demonstrate part of a drive to complete" NAFTA. ing kidnaping of foreign nationals­ in all its crudity what it really is: the Liberalization of the Mexican finan­ and particularly of Mexicans-Bush annexation of strategic sectors of the cial sector would be achieved gradual­ responded with a cynical "we won't Mexican economy by certain power­ ly over the next seven years, and do it again." ful U.S.economic interests. would be so generous that U.S. insti­ Bush's hyperactivity was such On the day of the San Diego meet­ tutions would be permitted to do in that during the press conference fol­ ing, Washington announced that the Mexico what they are prohibitedfrom lowing his interview with Salinas, he Mexican government had agreed to doing in the iU.S. by the Glass­ told reporters that he had to run to the permit foreign companies to partici­ Steagall Act, which expressly forbids Jack Murphy stadium, where he was pate in the exploration and exploita­ the creation of monopolies within the going to watch the firstpitch at the All­ tion of crude oil, under the rubric of financial sector. Stars game by legendary player Ted the so-called "performance contract." The argument is that the reprivat­ Williams. Bush insisted on limiting Only days earlier, on July 8, Fran­ ized Mexican ' banking system ur­ the reporters to two questions to each cisco Rojas, the director of the state gently needs fresh capital, but the President and was so obnoxious that oil company Pemex, told the Mexican truth is that this "opening" is the con­ Salinas had to interrupt him to reiter­ Chamber of Deputies that "no form of dition agreed to by Mexico's bankers ate that the U. S. Supreme Court ruling this kind of contract will be accepted, to acquire the more than $5 billion in was "invalid and unacceptable [and] no matter how it is gift wrapped." Ro­ foreign credit used to buy back their contrary to tests of law." Salinas's jas nonetheless acknowledged that the banks.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 21 Agriculture by Marcia Merry

FDA okays biotech fo r wonder foods select few c�el companies sweeping The decision serves the interests of the fo od cartel, not of patent right� that will be upheld inter­ nationally by the U.N. scientific agriculture. The FDA said that its May 26 deci­ sion is in line with the views of all the international agencies.The Wall Street Journal praised this and said The u.S. Food and Drug Adminis­ These investigations were the fea­ that the FDA decision sent a "bullish tration on May 26 issued a regulatory tured theme at this year's international signal" to the biotech stocks. decision approving marketing of new conference of the American Institute Conside. these examples: food products that result from genetic of Biological Sciences, which consid­ • Whe�t. In June, Monsanto ap­ engineering of plants. Since that an­ ered how to increase food yields in plied for a patent on a new type of nouncement, the FDA and the Bush such controlled environments as lunar wheat achieved through genetic engi­ administration have repeatedly de­ capsules for space travel. neering.Thel new wheat strain was en­ fended the action as furthering science In contrast to this, the U.S. agri­ gineered to J1esist certain weedkillers, and technology in agriculture. biotechnology "industry" consists of allowing th¢ plant to flourish while In opposition, spokesmen for the laboratories focusing their research on herbicide dejstroys the weeds. Mon­ environmentalist camp, for example achieving various particular charac­ santo-funde4 scientists worked for 10 the National Wildlife Federation, at­ teristics in fruits, vegetables, grains, years on thisj project. tacked the FDA action on grounds that oil crops, etc., that are desired for use Monsant,ois demanding sweeping it threatens the public with exposure as "wonder foods," in a U.S. and in­ patent protej::tion for the wheat, in­ to dangerous foods. Over this sum­ ternational food chain that is increas­ cluding for the means used to produce mer, the governmenthas decreed that ingly dominated by a small group of it , and including rights to penalize any a public comment period take place to cartel commodity and chemical com­ farmer for , attempting to grow it address the issues. panies, such as Cargill, Continental, himself. Both sides in this controversy are ADM, Monsanto, and DuPont.Much • Tom�oes. Calgene, Inc. of wrong. The foods from gene-spliced of the agri-biotechnology research is Davis , California is ready to rush to plants are not themselves a menace; funded by these companies, which in market its nj:!w rot-resistant strain of the interests behind today's biotech­ tum own many of the labs. tomato, the Flavr Savr, which will last nology research are the menace. The What kind of "designer" foods are for 20 days C!>n the shelf. Calgene has FDA decision serves an elite group of they seeking? The premium is on been in the forefront of the national cartel food companies that want bio­ quick-growing bio-mass crops that campaign for "alternative agricul­ technology patents for their own can fuel ethanol production; rot-resis­ ture"-the code name for low-income profits and food control purposes. tant fruits and vegetables that can farming. , First, consider the question of sci­ withstand long-distance warehousing A top C,lgene executive, Robert ence in agriculture. The biotechnolo­ and stock the new mega-supermarkets M. Goodman, served on the board of gy referred to in the FDA decision has run by Wal- Mart and other chains; and the National Research Council, which a limited merit, but it is not at the fron­ other "wonder crops" that can be in 1989 released the book Alternative tiers of science, nor is it focused on grown by factory farms, not family Agriculture, iwhose purpose was to ra­ the urgent task of improving the food farms. tionalize low-input farming and supply. U.S. biotech research today typi­ "wonder fo�ds." The book was a The breakthrough areas of agricul­ cally involves various gene-splicing hodge-podg¢ of excuses for why ag­ tural research today lie along the path methods, including transfers from one ricultural cqemicals should not be of understanding mechanisms of pho­ species to another-for example, in­ used, why modem water projects tosynthesis by means of electromag­ troducing a trait from a fishinto a fruit should not be developed, etc. The ar­ netic scanning and analysis, fine-tun­ that may impede frost damage. guments were so unfounded that the ing ways to "farm by the square foot," Much of the knowledge gained executive directorof the team that pro­ with controlled-environment agricul­ and the techniques refined are very duced the study, Charles M. Ben­ ture and other forms of hydroponics, valuable. However, the work has fo­ brook, was ;forced to resign in dis­ aeroponics, and similar approaches. cused on the objective of giving the grace.

22 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 Banking by John Hoefle

Bush's 'December Surprise' below that threshold by December. The FDIC is expecting a rash of bank closings to hit right aft er "The December Surprise is like the surprise that comes down the chimney the November elections. at the end of thCf year. It may be a surprise to some, but not to those who have been around," Taylor said. As of March 3 1, according to the T he Bush administration is prepar­ assets, are expected to occur during FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, ing a "December Surprise" for the the rest of the year. One can safely there were 981 commercial banks U.S. population, by attempting to assume that the bulk of those closures with assets of $535 billion on the postpone the next wave of big bank will occur after Nov. 3. agency's "problem list." That com­ failures until afterthe November elec­ FDIC chairman William Taylor, pares to 1,016 llanks with assets of tions. The Federal Deposit Insurance in a speech to the Iowa Independent $528 billion at th� end of 1991. Corp. (FDIC) , the banks, and the sav­ Bankers July 17, denied that the FDIC While the qumber of problem ings and loans (S&Ls) are all bank­ has slowed the pace of closings due to banks on the list peakedat 1 ,559 at the rupt, and the S&L bailout is again out the election, even while admitting that end of 1987, the assets of the troubled of funds.Better a nasty surprise in De­ a rash of bank failures is expected at banks is on the rise.In 1985, the 1 ,098 cember than before the election, the the end of the year. banks on the list'had $174 billion in administration figures. The major factor slowing the pace assets. The 1 ,457 problem list banks "Whoever the next U .S. President of bank failures, Taylor said, has been in 1986 had $286 billion in assets, and is, he will confront a 'December the rapid dropping of interest rates by the 1 ,559 banks QIl the list in 1987 had Surprise,' " a European banking the Federal Reserve, which most re­ assets of $329 billion. source told EIR . "Just as Bush was hit cently dropped the discount rate to Both figures decreased in 1988, by the postponed S&L crisis in the 3%. "Low interest rates may make with 1 ,394 prob�m banks and $304 first weeks after his election in 1988, things look better, but they will not billion in assets� and in 1989, with this time the next President will be sustain unsound institutions," Taylor 1,092 banks and $188 billion in forced to grapple with the far more said. "There a number of banks that assets. These decreases marked the serious issue of the entire commercial won't survive. end of the tidal wave of failures which banking system. Don't be misled by "I'm here to tell you that bank fail­ struck Texas, but did not indicate that recent quarterly profit improvements ures have indeed been delayed and the crisis was over. 1990, from Chase Manhattan, etc. This is perhaps a few avoided by low interest By the end of' the problem being politically massaged as part of rates and other factors. But there is list contained 1,012 banks-the the Bush administration's 'cease-fire' indeed been no effort by the agencies I smallest number in more than five on regulation. Regulators are being know to delay the closure of insolvent years-but the aSsets of those banks told to lay off forcing banks to write banks." were $342 billion. The number of off the bad real estate on their books. Under the terms of the FDIC Im­ problem banks grew by only four in It's simply being ignored until after provement Act of 1991 , federal bank­ 1991, but the assets of the banks on November. Then the dam will start to ing regulators have until Dec. 19 to the list jumped by $ 186 billion. Dur­ break. U.K. and other European in­ put a rule on the books authorizing ing the first quarterof 1992, the num­ vestment managers are getting out of regulators to close any bank whose ber of banks on the problem list de­ the United States as quickly as they core capital-to-assets ratio falls below clined by 35, but the assets rose by . areable. " 2%. Once a bank is found to be in over $7 billion. There is no question that the FDIC violation of the 2% standard, it will be With larger 'banks failing, even has slowed the pace of bank closings closed within 90 days unless it finds Taylor was forced to concede that the in this election year. For 1992, the additional capital. $70 billion authorized last year for the FDIC has projected that banks with Taylor said that about 80 banks, bank bailout may not beenough. Asked $80 billion in assets would be closed; representing $25-30 billion in assets, what the FDIC needed to survive, he thus far, it has closed banks with only already fail to meet the new standards, replied, "We n� tenants to fill vacant $22 billion in assets, meaning that and estimated that banks with an addi­ office buildings." But in the current de­ three-quarters of all bank failures, by tional $15 billion in deposits will slip pression, that's not going to happen.

EIR July 31, 1992 . Economics 23 BusinessBrief s

Trade in laminated silver pouches, and then irradiat­ scope can see it. ed to sterilize them, giving them an indefinite Thedesign calls for: I) seven optical-infra­ Ontario official urges shelf life without refrigeration. red telescopesarra yed in a "Y" to permitinter­ The Apolloastronauts ate irradiated food, ferometry;.2)adaptive optics-themirrors an end to NAFTA talks are and preferred irradiated steaks because they deformable and high-speed sensors change could be cooked to suit the individual astro­ their shapeas the diffractionof the atmosphere

Ontario PrimeMinister Bob Rae called Cana­ naut's taste, andthen processedwithout killing changes, a technological spin-off ofStrategic dian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney recently the taste. Accordingto a NASA dietician, oth­ Defense Initiative program; and 3) recon­ to urge him to take Canada out of the Mexico­ er ways of processingmeat to ensure that it is structive imaging to make images fromthe in­ u. s.-Canada free tradetalks , and keep Canada not contaminated-heat processing, for ex­ terferometric information. out of a North American Free Trade Agree­ ample-made the meat taste like "dog food ." ment (NAFTA) . "Ifit' s safe for people up there, how about The July 15 Toronto Globe and Mail now here on Earth?" Sam Whitney, president quoted Rae on Mulroney, "He wasn't going to of Vindicator, asked. react on the phone" to the proposal. Rae made the same proposalto the Ontario Energy Provincial Legislature . Making note of trade harassmentfrom the U.S. side, he said, "Cana­ Space Technology Iranian minister hits da cannot stay at the NAFTA negotiating table European 'greenhouse' while these American actions continue." A 4OO-meter optical tax Meanwhile, columnist Jeffrey Simpson wrotein Quebec'sLeDevoironJuly 15, "Very telescope planned Iranian Petroleum Minister Gholarnreza soon, Mulroney will suffer another headache . Aghazadell blasted the European Communi­ . . . The sourcewon't be theconstitutional cri­ An astonishing plan for an Earth-basedoptical ty's proposed "greenhouse" tax on carbon sis but the free-tradeaccords betweenCanada, imaging interferometer hasbeen supportedby products and oil, warning that it would seri­ the U.S., and Mexico." Canadian polls (ex­ a National Science Foundation statementofin­ ously affec� expansion plans of the oil-produc­ cluding Quebec) show that two out of three tent to providehalf of the needed $10.5 million ing countries, in an addressto the Organization Canadians against free trade. are funding. The planned telescope is called the of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) According to sources in Ottawa, reported CHARA Array , taking its name from theCen­ ministerial energy seminar in Solstrand, Nor­ Le Devoir, George Bush wants signing cere­ ter for High Angular Resolution Astronomy way on July 1-2. monies in Mexico City and Niagara Falls be­ at Georgia State University in Atlanta, which If implemented, and the environmental fore the U.S. election. But for Mulroney, it reportedthe plans and an NSF awardof initial lobby is in a full-scale mobilization to make wouldn't be a plus . The constitutional crisis, funding (about $0.5 million) on July 6. sureit is, he said, themeasure will imposea $3 the recession, the unpopular Goods and Ser­ TheCHARAArray is projected to have the "greenhou!je" tax on a barrel of oil in 1993, vices Tax-7% on almost everthing-the al­ light-gathering powerof a single mirror with a with that rising to $10 by the year 2000. Ac­ readylow popularity of his Conservative Par­ diameter of 400 meters . For comparison, the cording to fIe Opecnanews agency, Aghaza­ ty, and now NAFTA, make any ostentatious largest telescope planned heretofore, using deh said this taxwould endanger"oureco­ show around the accord very bad politics for truit four eight-meter mirrors in combination, is the nomic development and that of our future the Canadian prime minister. equivalentofa single 16-metertelescope. This generations. " is the Very Large Telescope planned by the He pointedout that thetax placed thegreat ­ European Southern Observatory to be com­ est part of the burdenon oil and gasproducers plete in 1998 at a much higher price . The Palo­ and ignored the differences in carbon dioxide Food mar telescope has a four-meter mirror. reduction costs for different countries. The resolving power of CHARA is pro­ He also said that there was no scientific Astronauts to enjoy jected to be 150 times that of an ideally func­ certaintyasto whether C02 or watervapor was tioning Hubble Space Telescope. It is sup­ the cause of global warming. He said that the irradiated steaks posed to be operational at a remote site in the extent of such warming over the next 100 southwestern United States by late 1995. years, or its impact on various parts of the Irradiated steaks will beback on theastronauts ' It will be the most powerful interferomet­ world, also'remained in doubt. "Making spe- menu soon, after50 pounds ofrib-eye steaks , ricarr ay operatingin thecivilian sector-pow­ . cific policy decisions on the basis of such in­ irradiation-sterilized at the Vindicator plant in erful enough to detect planets around other complete irtformation, demonstrates overrid­ Mulberry, Florida, are tested for microbial stars and monitor the progress of baseball ing political considerations and pressures on content and then sent to NASA's Johnson games on the Moon. Today, alunar crater has certain states versus its scientific aspects," he Space Center. The steaks arecooked, sealed to be a mile in diameter before the best tele- warned.

24 Economics EIR July 31, 1992 Brildly

• SEN. CQNNIE MACK (R-Fla.) wrote a commentary in the July 16 Wall Street Journal suggesting that "the veil of · secrecy" over Interna­ tions. " The motivation of the big corporations Demographics tional MoneliarY Fund programs "be in supporting "aggressive environmentalism" lifted to allo� for greater accountabil­ is seen in "the campaign that was launched to entering an ity. . . . Whdn the agrees to fund Africa ban CFCs on the specious ground that theyde­ IMF a given countty, the country mustsign 'era of depopulation' stroyed the ozone layer. Horrendous stories a letter of intentoutlining the economic were spreadabout the thousands of deaths by policies it must follow to receive the skin cancer resulting from the destruction of "Africais definitelyentering an era of depopu­ aid. Lettersof intent . . . , in effect, the ozone layer." This is all a fraud: "The vil­ are lation," an Africanmedical doctor who works t economic treaties, not subject to lainin CFCs is known to bechlorine . Butevap­ secre in Nigeria toid EIR July 16. "FromZaire to the review even by the legislatures theof orating seawater contains 600 million tons of East African coast down to Tanzania, AIDS is major IMFdonors ." everywhere. It is common knowledge." Ac­ chlorine per year.. ..In comparison, the chlorine in CFCs is only 0.75 tons a year." cording to the World Health Organization, • LITHUANIA is facing drought But "the and well-financed AIDS is mostly confined to cities in Africa, determined conditions, tAinister of Agriculture campaign" is pushed, Menon wrote, with the but this source corroborated other first-hand Rimvydas Survilareported at a cabi­ aim of banning CFCs, and thereby driving reports that AIDS has long been rampant in net meeting July 8. The harvest of Third World chemical producers "out of bus i­ rural areas . "AIDShas wipedout entire towns , most crops is expected to be 40-60% . ness, since they do not have the resources and entire villages, throughoutUganda and Zaire below last year. Rainfall is only 5- resourcecapabilities to producealternatives to And nothingis being done aboutit at all." 20% the normal rate . Since Nigeria implemented an Interna­ CFCs." tional Monetary Fund "structural adjustment • IRAQ has announced that it is program" in 1986, health services in ruralar­ filing suit against the Swiss-based eas have collapsed, the African doctor told Bank for International Settlements : EIR . Some 65% of the Nigerian population for refusing to release $350 million lives in the countryside. The services "have Development Policy in Iraqi assetS. beenwithdra wn," he said. Clinics have simply closed down. Science and technology are • THE (:ONCORDE aircraft The biggest killers in Nigeria remainyel­ the most powerful tools. reached 250jOOO hours of supersonic low fever, drug-resistanttypes of malaria, and flight time iQ early July, more super­ cholera, he said. Yellow fever and cholera sonic hours than all westernair forces wipeout entire villages at a time, with a village Science and technology arethe most powerful combined. the plane was built by averaging about 1,000people. toolsto solve the problems of economic depri­ British Aerospace and Aerospatiale Ifhealth servicesare disappearing in Nige­ vation and deterioratingenvironment , Dr.Su­ of France, and firstentered service 15 ria, it is worse for the restof Africa, he added. broto , secretarygeneral of the Organization of years ago. But it is starting to show Nigeria has 60% ofthe doctors on the con­ PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC), told its age: Since 1989, the top section of tinent. the 1992 Hania World Dialogue conferencein the aircraft's rudder has disintegrated Crete on July 17. three times during supersonic flight. Subrotomaintained that aidthrough loans In each case:, the aircraft was able to had resulted in a reversed flow of resources land safely .. Environmentalism fromthe Southto the North."Only throughthe development of a strong indigenous base for • SANCnONS against South Ko­ Indian writer charges science and technology will the South be able rea are likely aftertalks with the Unit­ to solve its development and environmental ed States on shipping broke up with­ 'ozone hole' is a hoax problems," he said, the OPEC news agency out Progresll on "the key issues" of Opecnareported . "liberalizing the Korean trucking and Environmentalisthoaxes likethat aroundchlo­ Subrotoemphasized that "it is time to re­ rail industri�s and ending Korean re­ rofluorocarbons (CFCs) and the "ozone hole" vise our entrenchedtolerance of the economic strictions on transportation middle­ arepart of a program of ''technological apart­ imbalance between the rich and the poor, men," according to the Journal of heid" againstthe developing world, argued In­ which has dominated life through much of this Commerce. The Federal Maritime dianwriter N.C. Menon in aHindustan Times violent century. Indeed, such imbalances Commission has moved "a step clos­ feature on July 15. seem increasingly untenable in a borderless er to retalia�ng against South Korea "Ithas beenargued that the environmental world." He warned that the end of the Cold for prohibiq.ng foreign freight for­ movement was created andfinanced to this day War should not be allowed to give way to a warders anel consolidators from do­ by someof the leading familiesin Americaand form of class warwhich would be morefero­ ing busines� in that country." Europe thatcontrol many of the giant corpora- cious and prolonged.

EIR July 31, 1992 Economics 25 TIillFeature

Southernfri edi • • fascIsts seize Democratic Party by Kathleen Klenetsky

The Democratic Party took a giant step closer to becoming an outright fascist entity at its national convention in July. Taken together with a platform that reads like an Americanized version of Mussolini idolizer Giovanni Gentile's blueprint for a corporate state, the nomination of two Southem yuppies, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, signals a phase change in the Democratic P�y. No longer does the party even pretend to represent the interests of its former priJrnary constituencies-labor, farmers, minorities, and urban ethnic groups . Instead, the party has goosestepped right back to' its origins as the vehicle for the slave-owning, anti-industrial faction of the early U.S. elite, whose commit­ ment to British-style free trade and antipathy towar� the Union ("states' rights") plunged the country into the Civil War.

'New covenant' equals new fascism Democrat Lyndon LaRouche, who is shortly expected to announce an indepen­ dent campaign for the presidency, characterized the Democratic convention as akin to Hitler's Nuremberg rallies, as orchestrated by Barnum and Bailey, and described the Clinton-Gore ticket as "a pair of SoUlhem fried fascists who are focusing on the worst element in society and putting people [first] who might be individually salvageable, but who as a group are fairly described as guppies, that is, greedy yuppies." All other significant constituencies "are being essentially ignored by this ticket," LaRouche said. LaRouche's comments are right on the mark. From former Texas Rep. Barbara Jordan's keynote on the opening night of the carefully!staged proceedings, through Al Gore and Slick Willie's acceptance speeches at the end, the entire convention was dominated by demands for austerity, thinly disg\ilised with such euphemisms as "equality of sacrifice." . Clinton, in a rather blasphemous borrowing from the New Testament, centered his acceptance address on what he called a "new covenant ." But what Clinton and

26 Feature EIR July 31, 1992 Virginia's Attorney General Mary Sue Terry, campaigning with Al Gore, who is now the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Terry likes the death penalty so much that she carried out her 11th execution on July 24, and plans fo ur more in the next two months. This is the Democratic Party's "new breed" of Confederates, wooing the suburban yuppie vote, and modeling their policies on those of Mussolini.

his handlers mean by the term is light years away from what ers who lose their jobs. Christ promised his followers . • Draconian cuts in health care. Clinton's watchword is Devised by that nest of Bush Democrats, the Democratic medical "cost containment," as he insists that reducing health Leadership Council (DLC, a.k.a. Democrats Longing for the care expenditures on a national level is the sine qua non of both Confederacy or Democratic Leisure Class), Clinton's "new deficit reduction and infrastructure investment. In this, Clinton covenant," with its talk of "rights and responsibilities" and a reflects the thinking of such Wall Street luminaries as Peter "revolution in government," bears a striking similarity to Peterson, chairman of the Council on ForeignRelatio ns, invest­ British liberal John Locke's social contract, which formed ment banker Felix Rohatyt;l, and "industrial policy" proponent the philosophical basis for the Confederate Constitution. Clyde Prestowitz, who maintain that unless huge chunks of the In effect, the new covenant outlines a plan for governing monies now spent on keeping people alive and healthy are the United States under depression conditions, by mobilizing diverted into "investment," the economy is doomed. some parts of the population against others, in a classic di­ • Cuts in entitlement programs, with Medicare the first vide-and rule tactic, and by using such devices as "communi­ target, to be followed by an assault on Social Security. The ty self-help" (the Democratic variation of George Bush's Democratic platform calls for balancing the federal budget "thousand points of light") to con people into accepting ever­ through "fair and shared sacrifice of all Americans," which deeper austerity . means "putting everything on the table, eliminat[ing] non­ productive programs," and "reform[ing] entitlement pro­ Free trade and an end to welfare grams to control soaring health-care costs .. .." As expressed in several recent Clinton statements, and in • The "end of welfare as we know it," as Slick Willie the grotesque platform adopted at the convention, the "new bluntly puts it. This is a particularly cynical gambit, given covenant" includes these key components: that the country is gripped by depression and unemployment, • A U.S. economic system held hostage to the same which are forcing millions of working people onto the wel­ British "free trade" arrangements against which the Ameri­ fare rolls. It is a crass, Willie Horton-style appeal to yuppies can Revolution was fought. Clinton and Gore are both de­ and hard-pressed working-class families alike, which is fenders ofthe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAF­ meant both to appeal to, and mobilize, popular sentiment for TA) and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), cutting welfare and other social service programs, throwing and the party platform explicitly endorses these agreements, the poor and handicaped onto the garbage heap. albeit with a few rhetorical sops about retraining U. S. work- • A severely limited infrastructure development pro-

EIR July 31, 1992 Feature 27 gram, based primarily on some meager investment in the transportation grid, combined with building up U . S. environ­ mental and communications technology-hardly a program for what the United States desperately needs , an industrial The DLC d renaissance. rui The Clinton-Democrat proposals borrow heavily from the new fe dalism Felix Rohatyn's "Rebuild America" plan. Like Rohatyn's, u financing would come through a combination of hiking taxes by Kathleen Klenets and looting pension plans. Although Clinton claims he will kY, raise taxes only on those earning over $200,000 a year, he has made it plain that his version of the Rohatyn plan also When Bill Clinton extolled th¢ virtues of his fascist "new depends for the bulk of its financing on public and private covenant" in his acceptance speech to the Democratic Party, . pension funds. However, as LaRouche has recently pointed he was sounding a theme clos�y identified with the Demo­ out, most U. S. pension funds exist only on paper; they were cratic Leadership Council. Fou ded in early1985 after Wal­ bled dry in the 1980s by investing in junk bonds, leveraged ter Mondale' s trouncing by Ro d Reagan in the 1984 presi­ buyouts, etc . Thus , even Clinton's pallid infrastructure de­ dential elections, the DLC was the brainchild of a group of velopment plan is a non-starter. Southern Democrats, who clai�ed to want to steer the party • A foreign policy which contains no truly substantive into a more "mainstream " dire ion. differences from the Bush administration's, except, perhaps , The initiators of the DLC ij cluded Sens. Sam Nunn (D­ its overt pandering to the Israeli lobby, expressed in the Ga . ) and Chuck Robb (D-Va. ), and Reps. Richard Gephardt platform's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israei . (D-Mo. ) and John Breaux (D-ILa. ). Both Clinton and Gore Regarding U.S. military policy, the platform reads like joined the group; Clinton evdntually became the DLC's a script for Bush's "Pox Americana." It says the United States chairman, and only resigned l st year, when he formally �. should beef up its "rapid deployment capabilities to deal declared for the presidency. with new threats to our security posed by renegade dictators, It hasn't taken long for what the DLCers meant by "main­ terrorists, international drug traffickers, and the local armed stream" to become apparent-lUld it certainly isn't a returnto conflicts that can threaten the peace of entire regions." It the pre-McGovern reform period in which the party tended, furtherstates that the U. S. "must lead a renewed international more or less, to represent legitimate constituency groups, effort to get tough with companies that peddle nuclear and such as labor, urban ethnic niachines, farmers, and civil chemical warfare technologies, strengthen the International rights layers, and fought to some extent, as John F. Kennedy Atomic Energy Agency, and enforce strong sanctions against did, for economic development and scientific progress. governments that violate international restraints . " Instead, the DLC, along with'its thinktank, the Progressive • Embrace of the radical environmentalist agenda. As the Policy Institute, has established itself as the leading exponent Democratic platform puts it, the United States must "become a of the view that the Democratic Partycan only succeed political­ leader . . . in the fight against global warming" and agree to ly ifit abandons these constituencies, and reorients toward the "limit carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year yuppie suburban vote, the lawyers, accountants, stockbrokers,

2000." The U.S. must also engage in an aggressive campaign and other parasites who have proliferated as theproductive base to bring the "explosive population growth" under control. of the U.S. economy has collapsed. • A "newspeak" version of "family values": The Demo­ The Democratic Party's just-completed convention in crats, having become notorious (and to some extent unelect­ New York bears witness to the DLC's success. Not only did able ) during the past 20 years by embracing every perversion the party nominate two of the OLC's leading members, but under the sun, decided to recast themselves this year as the the platform it adopted, with its talk of "rights and responsi­ party of "family values." Even Hillary Clinton has got into bilities" and a new social contract, was lifted straight from the act, distributing chocolate chip cookies to reporters. the DLC's policy pronouncements. Family values? From Clinton, who spent much of the Indeed, the transformation of the Democratic Party into primary season courting the "gay" lobby, garnering the en­ the party of yuppie post-industrialism, can be credited in thusiastic backing of the leading homosexual political organi­ large measure to the efforts of tQe DLC. zation? And from Gore, who---despite his wife Tipper's Writing in theJuly 1992 issuel of thegroup 's magazine New highly publicized crusade against pornographicrock lyrics­ Democrat, DLC president AI From calls on the Democratic is a devotee of the pagan goddess Gaia? Party to recognize that "America. is going through a political

What the Democrats mean by "family values" was transformation as power shifts from the central cities to the summed up by Clinton's discussion of abortion in his speech suburbs." "Ifthe Democrats cast their lot with the cities," From to the convention . I'm not pro-abortion , Clinton told the wams , "they sharply diminish their chance of winning." delegates; I'm merely "pro-choice." The July issue's theme, ptoclaimed on the cover, is

28 Feature EIR July 31, 1992 "Forging a New Social Contract," while articles deal with tions, benefits,and wages would be' suspended. various aspects of Clinton's "new covenant." In "The Politics Ironically, the DLC-Heritage combine has converged on of Reciprocity," PPI President Will Marshall writes that the community control approach fayored by the 1960s New "America's now predominantly suburban electorate ... Left-which, in tum, was engineered by the Ford Founda­ does not pine for massive public works spending or urban tion, the late Robert Hutchins's Center for the Study of Dem­ bailouts"; thus, pragmatic Democrats should tailor their poli­ ocratic Institutions, and other estabJishment entities, for the cies to appeal to suburban biases, such as antipathy to "wel­ explicit purpose of softening up the U.S. popUlation to a fare cheats." form of fascist economics based on "communitarianism" or One of the most succinct summaries of the DLC's outlook "fascism with a democratic face." is a recent comment made by Richard Lamm, the former Since the DLC has jettisoned th� idea of economic prog­ governor of Colorado, who created a furor in 1984 when he ress, it is hardly surprising that its policy prescriptions call called on the elderly to "die and get out of the way." In his for austerity in various guises. For example, the PPI's first New Democrat piece, Marshall approvingly quotes Lamm's policy statement, issued in 1989, opposed an increase in the remark: "The essence of this new world is that the economy minimum wage. Author Robert Shapiro, the institute's vice of the 1990s cannot support the dreams of the 1960s. The president for economic studies, currently advises the Clinton public policy of the world's largest debtor nation, which has campaign. among the lowest rate of productivity growth in the industri­ Welfare has become a DLC-P�I bete noire, reflected in alized world, must be dramatically differentthan when it was Clinton's vow to "end welfare as � know it," and the DLC the world's largest creditor nation with the highest rate of and PPI have lobbied for various "workfare" programs.Other productivity growth." pet DLC-PPI projects include natiolilalservice-under which a college student could not qualify for a government loan, The new feudal paradigm unless he agreed to either serving in, the armed forces or work The DLC has been derided by some Democrats for at­ for the government in a community: service job, at below the tempting to "Republicanize" the party. But in fact the DLC prevailing wage; and community p�licing. has teamed up with the "new paradigm" Republicans (Jack The DLC and PPI call their politem of school vouchers, year, the PPI joined with Heritage to sponsor a conference on streamlining bureaucracies, tenan� management of public "beyond left and right," where discussion centered on how housing, etc. to reduce governmentservices of all kinds, while convincing Although Osborne,in his latest book, Reinventing Gov­ the population that being freed of such nasty government ernment, protests that entrepreneurial governmentis not spe­ interventionism as municipally run garbage service will bring cifically aimed at facilitating austerity, that is clearly the them "empowerment." object.As he and other DLCers admit, government costs can The point of these meetings, Marshall explains, was to only be reduced if wages and benefilsare cut and entitlements arrive at a "third way, a new choice that combines the valid slashed-in other words, if the st�ndard of living is driven insights of the left and the right in a progressive governing down. philosophy for the 1990s," one which "rejects the old choice The power of the DLC shoul� not be underestimated. between conservative neglect and liberal entitlements in fa­ The group claims hundreds of meQJ,bers,many of them gov­ vor of a new politics of reciprocity." ernment officials, all over the cquntry. The organization "The outlines of this new policy of reciprocity," Marshall maintains chapters in nearly 30 states,has an annual budget says, "can be seen in the 'New Covenant' reforms of Gov. of $2.5 million, and retains 19 fullrtime staff members. Bill Clinton," in the "revival of communitarian thinking," as President Al From formerly worked for Democrats for reflected in sociologist Amitai Etzioni's "new communitari­ the Eighties, the influentialpolitical action committee found­ an" movement, "and even in the conservative empowerment ed by Pamela Churchill Harriman,; widow of the late Demo­ movement led by Jack Kemp and the Heritage Foundation's cratic Party eminence grise, Averell Harriman. Its trustees StuartButler. " includes representatives of some �f the leading Wall Street It should be noted that Kemp proposes to "empower" and related firmswhich played instrumental roles in the post­ people by selling the country's rotting public housing stock industrial destruction of the U.S . economy , such as Barrie to tenants, while Butler, a member of the British Fabian Wigmore, a limited partner at Goldman Sachs; Michael Society, wants to "empower" inner-city residents by building Steinhardt of Steinhardt Partnersl and Linda Peek, a vice "enterprise zones," in which regulations on working condi- president with RJR Nabisco.

EIR July 31, 1992 Feature 29 II. Responsibility Documentation ...Welfare reform. Welfare should be a second chance, not a way of life. We want to break the cycle of welfare by adhering to two simple principles: No one who is able to work can stay on welfare forever, and no one who works should live in poverty .' We will continue to help those who cannot help themselves. We will offer peopleon welfare a new social contract. We'll invest in education and job 'A new covenant' for training, and provide the child care and health care they need austerity and zero growth to go to work and achieve IIong-term self-sufficiency. We will give them the help they needto make the transition from welfare to work, and requirei people who can work to go to Here are excerptsfrom the 1992 Democratic Platform, "A work within two years in available jobs either in the private New Covenant with the American People." sector or in community service to meet unmet needs. This will restore the covenant that welfare was meant to be: a Preamble promise of temporary help fIor people who have fallen on . . . [W]e call for a revolution in government-to take hardtim es. power away from entrenched bureaucracies and narrow inter­ Choice. Democrats standibehind the right of every wom­ ests in Washington and put it back in the hands of ordinary an to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, regardless of people .. .. ability to pay, and support a national law to protect that The Revolution of 1992 is about facing up to tough right. It is a fundamental constitutional liberty that individual choices .... Americans-not governmenkan best take responsibility To make this revolution, we seek a New Covenant to for making the most difficultand intensely personal decisions repair the damaged bond between the American people and regarding reproduction .. ... their government, that will expand opportunity, insist upon Labor-management relsponsibiUties. ... Workers greater individual responsibility in return , restore communi­ must also accept added respol!lsibilities thein new economy. ty, and ensure national securityin a profoundly new era. In return for an increased voice and a greater stake in the sucess of their enterprises, workers should be prepared to I. Opportunity join in cooperative efforts to increase productivity, flexibili­ . . . We rej ect both the do-nothing governmentof the last ty , and qUality. . . . twelve years and the big governmenttheory that says we can ResponsibiUty for the environment. For ourselves and hamstring business and tax and spend our way to prosperity. future generations, we must 'protect our environment. We Instead we offer a third way. Just as we have always viewed will protect our old growth forests, preserve critical habitats, working men and women as the bedrock of our economy, we provide a genuine "no net loss" policy on wetlands, reduce " honor business as a noble endeavor, and vow to create a far our dependence on toxic chemicals, conserve the critical re­ better climate for firms and independent contractors of all sources of soil, water and air, oppose new offshore oil drilling sizes that empower their workers, revolutionize their work­ and mineral exploration, and production in our nation's many places, respect the environment, and serve their communities environmentally critical areas, and address ocean pollution by well .. .. reducing oil and toxic waste spills at sea. We believe Ameri­ The deficit. Addressing the deficit requires fair and ca's youth can serve its country well through a civilian conser­ shared sacrifice of all Americans for the common good .. .. vation corps . To protect the public health, we will clean up the We must also tackle spending, by putting everything on the environmental horrors at federal facilities, insist that private table; eliminate nonproductive programs; achieve defense polluters clean up their toxic aIldhazardous wastes, and vigor­ savings; reform entitlement programs to control soaring ously prosecute environmental criminals. We will oppose Re­ health care costs; cut federal administrative costs by 3% publican efforts to gut the Clean Air Act in the guise of com­ annually for four years; limit increases in the "present bud­ petitiveness. We will reduce the volume of solid waste and get" to the rate of growth in the average American's pay­ encourage the use of recycled materials while discouraging check; apply a strict "pay as you go" rule to new non­ excess packaging. To avoid the mistakes of the past, we will investment spending; and make the rich pay their fair share actively support energy-efficiency, recycling, and pollution in taxes .... prevention strategies .. ..

The cities •...We will encourage the flow of invest­ ment to inner city development and housing through targeted III. Restoring communlty enterprise zones and incentives for private and public pen­ The success of our democracy in America depends sub­ sion funds to invest in urban and rural projects .... stantially on the strength of oUl!community institutions: fami-

30 Feature EIR July 31, 1992 lies and neighborhoods, public schools, religious institu­ Energy Agency, and enforce strong sanctions against govern­ tions, charitable organizations, civil groups and other ments that violate international restraints .... voluntary associations .. .. Trade agreements. Multinational trade agreements can Our communities form a vital "third sector" that lies be­ advance our economic interests by expanding the global tween government and the marketplace. The wisdom, ener­ economy. Whether negotiating the North American Free gy, and resources required to solve our problems are not Trade Area [sic] (NAFTA) or comp,eting the GAIT negotia­ concentrated in Washington, but can be found throughout tions, our government must assure that our legitimate con­ our communities, including America's non-profit sector, cernsabout environmental, health �nd safety, and labor stan­ which has grown rapidly over the last decade. Government's dards are included. Those American workers whose jobs best role is to enable people and communities to solve their are affected must have the benefit of effective adjustment own problems .... assistance .. .. National service. We will create new opportunities for Democracy Corps. Promotin* democratic institutions citizens to serve each other, their communities, and their by creating a Democracy Corps to sendAmerican volunteers country. By mobilizing hundreds of thousands of volunteers , to countries that seek legal, financial, and political expertise national service will enhance the role of ordinary citizens in to build democratic institutions, am support groups like the solving unresolved community problems .. .. National Endowment for DemocraCy, the Asia Foundation, and others. IV. Preserving our national security Middle East peace. . . . The ¢nd of the Cold War does Military strength. America is the world's strongest mili­ not alter America's deep interest in our longstanding special tary power and we must remain so. A post-Cold War restruc­ relationship with Israel, based on· shared values, a mutual turing of American forces will produce a substantial savings commitment to democracy, and a stt-ategicalliance that bene­ beyond those promised by the Bush administration, but that fits both nations. The United States must act effectively as restructuringmust be achieved without undermining our abil­ an honest broker in the peace process. It must not, as has ity to meet future threats to our security. A militarystructure been the case with this administration, encourage one side to for the 1990s and beyond must be built on four pillars: First, believe that it will deliver unilateral concessions from the a survivable nuclear force to deter any conceivable threat, as other. Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel and should we reduce our nuclear arsenals through arms control negotia­ remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths. tions and other reciprocal action. Second, conventional forc­ Preserving the global environment. As the threat of es shifted toward projecting power wherever our vital nation­ nuclear holocaust recedes, the future of the earth is chal­ al interests are threatened. This means reducing the size of lenged by gathering environmentail crises. As governments our forces in Europe, while meeting obligations to NATO, around the world have sought the path to concerted action, and strengthening our rapid deployment capabilities to deal the Bush administration-despite its alleged foreign policy with new threats to our security posed by renegade dictators, expertise-has been more of an obstacle to progress than a terrorists, international drug traffickers, and the local armed leader for change, practicing isolationism on an issue that conflicts that can threaten the peace of entire regions. Third, affects us all. Democrats know we must act now to save maintenance of the two qualities that make America's mili­ the health of the earth, and the health of our children, for tary the best in the world-the superiority of our military generations to come. personnel and of our technology. These qualities are vital to Addressing global warmingJ The United States must shortening any conflict and saving American lives. Fourth, become a leader, not an impediqIent, in the fight against intelligence capabilities redirected to develop far more so­ global warming. We should join oUifEuropean allies in agree­ phisticated, timely, and accurate analyses of the economic ing to limit carbon dioxide emissibns to 1990 levels by the and political conditions that can fuel new conflicts. year 2000. Use of force. The United States must be prepared to use Ozone depletion. The United States must be a world military force decisively when necessary to defend our vital leader in finding replacements fdr CFCs and other ozone interests. The burdens of collective security in a new era depleting substances. must be shared fairly, and we should encourage multilateral Biodiversity. We must work actively to protect the plan­ peacekeeping through the United Nations and other interna­ et's biodiversity and preserve its forests. At the Rio Earth tional efforts. Summit, the Bush administration'S failure to negotiate a bio­ Preventing and containing conflict. American policy diversity treaty it could sign was an abdication of internation­ must be focused on averting military threats as well as meet­ al leadership. . . . ing them. To halt the spread of nuclear and other weapons of Population growth. Explosiv� population growth must mass destruction,we must lead a renewed internationaleffort be controlled by working closely I with other industrialized to get tough with companies that peddle nuclear and chemical and developing nations and private organizations to fund warfare technologies, strengthen the International Atomic greater family planning efforts.. .' .

EIR July 31, 1992 Feature 31 Investing in communitie� While America's great citiel> fall into disrepair, the Re­ publicans in Washington continue to ignore their fate . Private­ enterprise has abandoned our cities, leaving our young peo­ ple with few job prospects and declining hopes. To restore urban economic vitality and bring back high-paying jobs to our cities, I will: . . . i Clinton economic policy • Fight crime by putting 100,000 new police officers on '5 the streets . We will create a National Police Corps and offer unemployed veterans and activelmilitary personnel a chance From "Putting People First: A National Economic Strategy to become law enforcement officers here at home. We will fo r America," by Bill Clinton: also expand community policing, fund more drugtreatment, and establish community boot cllffips to discipline first-time . . . My strategy puts people first by investing more than non-violenet offenders. $50 billion each year over the next four years to put America • Create urban enterprise zqnes in stagnant inner cities, back to work-the most dramatic economic growth program but only for companies willing to take responsibility. Busi­ since World War II . . . . ness taxes and federal regulations will be minimized to pro­ To pay for these investments and reduce our national vide incentives to set up shop. Inireturn, companies will have deficit, I will save nearly $300 billion by cutting spending, to make jobs for local residents a top priority . . . . closing corporate tax loopholes, requiring the very wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes, and implementing rigorous Opening up world markets health care cost controls. My plan will cut the deficit in half · ..We will move aggressi�ly to open foreign markets within four years, and assure that the deficitcontinues to fall to quality American goods and Iservices. We will urge our each year after that .... trading partners in Europe and the Pacific Rim to abandon To create millions of high-wage jobs and smooth our unfair trade subsidies in key sectors like shipbuilding and transition from a defense- to a commercial-based economy, aerospace-and act swiftly if th<;y fail to respond. We will: we will rebuild America and develop the world's best com­ • Pass a stronger, sharper "Super 301" trade bill. If other munication, transportation and environmental systems. As nations refuse to play by our trade rules, we'll play by theirs. a prominent part of our commitment to put people first, we • Seek more open markets for American products by will create a Rebuild America Fund, with a $20 billion negotiating a free trade agreement with Mexico that ensures federal investment in each year for four years, leveraged a more level playing field and protects basic worker rights with state, local, private sector and pension fu nd contribu­ and environmental standards. tions. User fees such as road tolls and solid waste disposal • Create an Economic Security Council, similar in status charges will help guarantee these investments. . . . to the National Security Council, Iwith responsibility for coor­

We will focus on four critical areas: dinating America's internationalI economic policy. . . . • Transportation, including renovation of our country's roads, bridges, and railroads; creation of a high-speed rail Rewarding work and families network linking our major cities and commercial hubs .... Putting our people first means honoring and rewarding • A national information network to link every home, those who work hard and play by the rules. It means recogniz­ business, lab, classroom, and library by the year 2015 .... ing that government doesn't raise children-people do. It • Environmental technology to create the world's most means that we must reward wQrk, demand responsibility, advanced systems to recycle, treat toxic waste, and clean and end welfare as we know it ..i. . our air and water. Funds will be directed to the development In the 1980s the RepublicanSlonce again used welfare as of new, clean, efficient energy sources. a wedge to divide Americans aMinst each other .... • Defense conversion to ensure that the communities My national economic strategy will strengthen families and millions of talented workers that won the Cold War don't and empower all Americans to wCllrk. It will breakthe cycle of get left outin the cold. Many of the skills and technologies dependency and end welfare as we know it. It includes: . . . required to rebuild America are similar to those now used • Welfare-to-work. We will scrap the current welfare in our defense industries. We will encourage companies that system and make welfare a secoQd chance, not a way of life. bid on projects to rebuild America to contract work to , or We will empower people on "'felfare with the education, purchase, existing defense facilities; order the Pentagon to training, and child care they nee4 for up to two years so they conduct a national defense jobs inventory to assist displace can break the cycle of dependencw; After that, those who can workers; and provide special conversion loans and grants to work will have to go to work, either by taking a job in the small business contractors . private sector or through community service.

32 Feature EIR July 31, 1992 Quality, affordable health care change would become the watchword of this time. What is The American health care system costs too much and the catalyst which will bring about the change we are all does not work .... talking about? I say that catalyst is the Democratic Party and My health care plan is simple in concept but revolutionary our nominee for President. in scope ....The main elements include: We are not strangers to change. Twenty years ago we • National spending caps. The cost of health care must changed the whole tone of the nation afterWatergate abuses. not be allowed to rise faster than the average American's We did that, 20 years ago. We know how to change. We income. I will scrap the Health Care Financing Administra­ have been the instrument of change in the past. We know tion and replace it with a health standards board-made up what needs to be done. We know how to do it. We know that of consumers, providers , business, labor, and government­ we can impact policies which affect education, human rights, that will establish annual health budget targets and outline a civil rights, economic and social opportunity, and the envi­ core benefits package .... ronment. These are policies which are embedded in the soul • Universal coverage. Affordable, quality health care of the Democratic Party. And embedded in our soul. They will be a right, not a privilege. Under my plan, employers will not disappeareasily . and employees will either purchase private insurance or opt We as a party will do nothing to erode our essence. We to buy into a high-quality public program. Every American will not. But there are some things which ought to change. not covered by an employer will receive the core benefits We need to change them. But the fact that we are going to program set by the health standards board. change things, should not cause any apprehension in our • Managed care networks. Consumers will be able to minds , because the Democratic Party is alive and well. It is select from among a variety of local health networks, made alive and well. We will change in order to satisfy the present, up of insurers, hospitals, clinics, and doctors . The networks in order to satisfy the future, but we will not die. We will will receive a fixed amount of money for each consumer, change, but we will not die. giving them the necessary incentive to control costs. From what to what? Why not change from a party with a reputation of "tax and spend" to one with a reputation of A revolution in government investment and growth? Change. Change. A growth econo­

· . . I will take the following steps: . . . my is a must. We can grow the 'economy and sustain an • Cuts in administrative waste. I will require federal improved environment at the same time ....Change. We managers and workers to achieve 3% across-the-board ad­ can change the direction of Ameri¢a's economic engine and ministrative savings in every federal agency. become competitive again. We can make that change and • Cut wasteful government spending programs. To become proud of the country that we are. . . . get rid of spending programs that no longer serve their pur­ We must change that deleterious environmentof the ' 80s, pose, I will eliminate taxpayer subsidies for narrow special that environment which was characterized by greed and ha­ interests, reform defense procurement and foreign aid, and tred and selfishness and mega-mergers and debt overhang, slash boondoggle projects. change it to what? Change that environment of the '80s to an • Line item veto. To eliminate pork-barrel projects and environment which is characterized by a devotion to the pub­ cut government waste, I will ask Congress to give me the lic interest, public service, tolerance, and love. line item veto .... We must frankly acknowledge our complicity in the cre­ ation of the unconscionable budget deficit-acknowledge our complicity-and recognize, painful though it may be, that in order to seriously address the budget deficit, we must address the question of entitlements also. That's not easy. That's not easy. But we have to do it. We have to do it 'Equity in sacrifice' because the idea of justice between generations, that idea mandates that the baby boomers-that's our ticket-are enti­ From fo rmer Texas Rep. Barbara Jordan's keynote speech tled to a secure future . They are . to the Democratic Convention on July 13: However, if we are going to ask those who receive bene­ fits to sacrifice, there must be equity in sacrifice. Equity in The idea that America today will be better tomorrow has sacrifice. That idea says that we will sacrificefor growth, but become destabilized. It has become destabilized because of that everybody must join in the sacrifice, not just a few. the recession and the sluggishness of the economy. Jobs lost Equity in sacrifice means that all will sacrifice equally. have become permanent unemployment rather than cyclical Equally. Equally. That is, the person who is retired on a fixed unemployment. Public policymakers are held in low regard. income, the day laborer, the corporate executive, the college Mistrust abounds. professor, the member of Congress-all must sacrifice for In this kind of environment, is it understandable that equity .. ..

EIR July 31, 1992 Feature 33 �TIillInternational

Shining Path readies finalof fensive in Peru

by Andrea Olivieri

The Shining Path terrorists in Peru have launched what could superiority of the "indigenous" races, at one with nature and well constitute their "finaloff ensive" to destroy the remnants naturally "communistic." Celebration of the magical death of civilization in that beleaguered nation. Since the middle cult of the Wari culture, which preceded the Inca civilization of July, their commando units have exploded dozens of car­ in Peru, is part of the group's I belief structure. The conse­ bombs against primarily civilian targets in the city of Lima, quences of Shining Path's strategy of razing the cities and slaughtering men, women, and children and causing enor­ "collapsing the bourgeois state'1 arebrutally evident fromthe mous damage. On July 22 and 23, Shining Path (Sendero Khmer Rouge reign of terror rin Cambodia, where nearly Luminoso) imposed an "armed general strike" in the capital half that nation's population was slaughtered in the name of city. On the first day, they bombed schools and supermar­ stamping out the bourgeoisie. :This, but on a much larger kets, torched buses and taxis, and succeeded in emptying the scale, is what is now poised to seize power in the Western streets of Lima. On the second day, they were less successful, Hemisphere. I as many courageous residents risked their lives to find ways Instead of receiving a flOOld of political, financial and to get to work. logistical support from the internationalcommunity to eradi­ Nonetheless, the violence continues to escalate and on­ cate this cancer before it metaStasizes across the continent, the-ground evaluations are that Shining Path is able to strike Fujimori's administration has been subjected to a crippling at will, both inside and outside the city. The central railroad diplomatic, commercial, and financial embargo since April linking Lima with the interior of Peru has been cut by the 5, when he took the bold action of suspending Congress-a terrorists, and the Armed Forces are reporting a desperate hotbed of Shining Path protectors-and assuming special shortage of both financialresources and the logistical capabil­ powers to enable him to confront the terrorists. Under Bush ity to wage effective warfare against the enemy. Determined administration prompting, the. Organization of American to drench the nation in blood, the terrorist gang shows no States (OAS) and nations in Eutopeand elsewhereanswered sign of retreat. the crisis in Peru by condemning Fujimori's "anti-democrat­ ic" actions, and demanding that he begin negotiations with A satanic force the very pro-terrorist forces he had just ousted fromoffice . Following the July 16 car-bombing in Lima which de­ In a statement released Julyi 24, U.S. presidential candi­ stroyed four city blocks, killing more than a score of inno­ date Lyndon H. LaRouche described the implications of this cents and injuring another 250, President Alberto Fujimori diplomatic isolation of Peru. Shining Path "is not endemic to canceled a trip abroad to "take personal charge of the anti­ the Andean Spine," he said, "but is rather something which terrorist fight." He is now demanding that the international has been created in the Andean Spine by many foreign influ­ community face up to "the true nature" of Shining Path's ences, including the old Comm.mist International, including demonic insurgency. the French Synarchists, including the French ethnologists Shining Path identifies itself as a radical Maoist group, who are,in some cases, the same thing as the Synarchists­ whose ideology is Mother Earth cultism based on the alleged by the same circles in France which educated and createdPol

34 International EIR July 31, 1992 Pot, the genocidalist of Kampuchea. what happened to [President] Alan Garcia in 1988." (A pro­ "It is also clear, that this Sendero Luminoso has support fileof Palmer was published in EIR Qn June 12.) from many strange quarters, including high-level diplomatic Palmer's allies inside Peru include terrorist apologist and and related circles inside the United States. Sendero Lumino­ journalistGustavo Gorriti, who argu�s that Shining Path can­ so may not be joined by members of the State Department, not be fought with guns: "The best weaponagainst the insur­ but is being used by certain State Department circles as an gency is democratic legitimacy, an� the active exercise of instrument for 1) population control-collapse of the econo­ democratic life. I firmly believe the coup on April 5 was the my of Peru, and mass extermination genocidally of the popu­ biggest sabotage of efforts to defend Ptestate and of Peruvian lation of Peru, through the consequences of this kind of insur­ society since the start of the war on subversion." Gorriti has rection; 2) Sendero Luminoso is a pawn of those associated, been in the forefront of attacking the Peruvian military for for example, with Luigi Einaudi of the U.S. State Depart­ "human rights violations" against the nation's terrorists and ment, who are determined to destroythe military institutions their support network. of all of Central and South America. Gorriti and his ilk provide the 'fdemocratic" facrade for "In this situation, it is time to put aside all double-talk, arguments already circulating in Washington and elsewhere all diplomatic lying for the sake of good relations of various which suggest that war-ravaged co�tries like Peru and Co­ states, and to state plainly the truth: that this Andean Spine lombia are incapable of confrontingthe narco-terrorist ene­ operation . . . is being employed by persons in the so-called my , especially now that their defense forces are weakened western industrialized powers for the twofold purpose of by the combination of International Monetary Fund (IMF) genocide against the peoples of the Andean Spine, and for austerity dictates and the human-rightslobby 's batteringram . the destruction of the military and other sovereign institutions It is precisely such arguments which! are being used to justify of those countries. " the deployment of U.S. special forces to the Bolivian Ama­ zon and elsewhere. A two-front assault Fujimori is well aware that he is up against a two-front Defending national sovereignty war, the one internal and the other external. In a statement Not one of the critics of Fujimori' s waragainst the terror­ following the July 16 assault, Fujimori took direct aim at the ists has dared to address the real issue behind the crisis in Shining Path support networks abroad-and by implication Peru, which is not one of civilian versus military rule, but of at the governments which harbor them-when he promised preservation of the nation state and its sovereign institutions. that "the victims of the attack would weigh upon the con­ This poverty-stricken, disease-plagued nation at war cur­ sciences of all those, at home and abroad, who give their rently spends 42% of its annual bucilget on debt repayment, support [to Shining Path] . What do those students and work­ while its military expenses are only I 13%, comparable to the ers who collect money [for Shining Path] in London or Paris, amount spent on health and education. According to knowl­ in Mexico or in Washington, think as they become anony­ edgeable sources, Shining Path receives an estimated $720 mous messengers of death, sponsors of genocide?" million a year in profits from the narcotics trade, while the However, as LaRouche points out, the "Sendero Interna­ annual budget of the Peruvian military is less than $500 tional" goes far beyond students and workers . One of the million! most ardent defenders of Shining Path's "vision" is former The issue of the military's survival was at the center of a State Department official David Scott Palmer, who wrote seminar given by EIR in Lima on ' July 17, entitled "Who in the preface to his just-published book on the Peruvian Is Trying to Destroy the Armed Forces, and Why?" The terrorists, "I am forced to respect the dedication and zeal of conference was attended by 45 people, the majority of them the Shining Path leadership as it tries to forge a new and high-level active and retired militaJy personnel, despite the more meaningfulreality for peripheral Peru's long-suffering fact that the conference hotel was in the "battle zone" which citizenry. " had been hit by a Shining Path car-bomb the evening before. In a July 20 interview in the Peruvian magazine Caretas, At the seminar,EIR 's Luis Vasquez described the black­ Palmer insisted that Fujimori's April 5 action "really helped mail campaigns of former World Bank head Robert McNa­ Sendero in its long-term goals of taking power." Palmer, mara, Trilateral Commission ideologue Samuel Huntington, who reportedly still does consulting work for the Bush ad­ and former Peru presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, ministration, is clearly speaking for his "former" State De­ among others , to force the reductioiliand eventual elimination partment employees when he demands that Fuj imori submit of the continent's armed forces. Vasquez challenged Vargas to an OAS timetable for restoration of "democracy": "Until Llosa, whose recent call for "the disappearance of the ar­ there is some guarantee of a return to a democratic regime mies" enraged the Peruvian military, to a debate "anytime, . . . there will be no resumption of military aid." Palmer anywhere." Other speakers, who in�luded two retired gener­ draws the obvious conclusion: "To the degree that Peru has als and one retired colonel fromthe Peruvian Army, attacked no funds, and doesn't reinsert [itself into the international the IMF's free-marketprescriptions as an "imperialist offen­ financial community] , it has a ferocious problem, similar to sive" against the continent's militat1ybudgets .

EIR July 31, 1992 International 35 from colonial times and which, in effect, discriminates against the vast, Indian-blooded majority in favor of Europe-. Foreign apologists an descendants," Strong raves. He adds that, through Shining Path's war, "slowly, but surely, after 500 years the whites back Shining Path war are being pushed out. " If the book reads like Shining Path propaganda, it is no accident. In his acknowledgments, Strong expresses his Gretchen Small by "great thanks" to fivetop Senderistas, among others, for their help in preparing the book. As Shining Path terrorists launched their "Tet offensive" inside Peru, a network of foreign apologists of Shining Path Preparing the next wave (Sendero Luminoso) opened an international front in the war A review in the London Guardian July 18 of Palmer and against the Peruvian state. A group of so-called "Senderolo­ Strong's books, by the Guardian's Richard Gott, identified gists"-social scientists, anthropologists, journalists-have the goal of this propaganda: "Quite suddenly, it has become set themselves up as Shining Path's international "fifth col­ permissible to discuss seriousl}1 the aims and ambitions and umn," turning their academic posts and news outlets into methods of Sendero Luminoso," wrote Gott. "For years, propaganda outlets designed to build legitimacy for Shining such discussion has been deemed inadmissible. The com­ Path'shideous war. bined forces of both left and right have assembled to dismiss A flood of newsletters and books dedicated to Shining this revolutionary organization as the Andean equivalent of Path have hit the market. In June alone, two major books the Khmer Rouge-the Hitlerian image of the late 20thcentu­ promoting Shining Path as a legimate political force were ry-and further debate has been effectively ruled out." published, with several more scheduled for publication be­ No longer is this to be the case. He hailed the recent fore 1992 is over. The first, edited by former State Depart­ showing by British television Channel 4 of "an extraordinari­ ment official David Scott Palmer (see preceding article), was ly brilliant film" as the first sign of this change. The film the first book-length treatment of the Peruvian killers, but it showed Shining Path to be a "disciplined, highly motivated was still directed to a specialized audience of policymakers military organization, imbued with a near-fanatical zeal, with and academics. more than a sporting chance of taking power beforethe end The second book, written by the former correspondent of the century," a movement wlllich exhibits "unquestioning for London's Independent in Peru, Simon Strong, targets the devotion to a cause," and is "apparentlysuccessful and well­ mass media and the broader public. Promoted May 24 even supported ...devoted to promoting a Chinese-style Maoist before publication in the New York Times Sunday magazine revolution." He praises Palmer's book as "useful," and section, Strong's book is now being heralded in reviews Strong's for demonstrating that Shining Path is only "the worldwide as a "must read" for non-specialists, "a very good latest in a long line of legitimate, millenarian struggles" in introduction to a dramatic subject that is at the heart of the South America. dilemma in not only Latin America but all Third World coun­ Gott advances the new line; Shining Pathcan , and per­ tries," in the words of Peru's pornographerand Nobel Litera­ haps should, win in Peru. "The guerrillas will not seize power ture Prize candidate Mario Vargas Llosa. in any meaningful sense," he writes. "They will assume pow­ Strong's title, Shining Path: The World's Deadliest Revo­ er at the moment that the old society disintegrates. Peru is lutionaryForce (London: HarperCollins), is misleading. The undoubtedly now near that point, undermined by violence book attacks the very culture, institutions, and civilization and terror, certainly, but also by the drug trade and endemic which Shining Path seeks to eradicate from Peru: everything corruption, by the racism of the ruling elite. . . . I have heard western and anything Christian. Peru's military is painted as wealthy Peruvians, living in exile because of the security genocidal maniacs; the Catholic Church , as violent oppres­ situation in Lima, throwing up their hands in despair and sors of a preferred Indian culture; the government, as vile asking aloud whether--every1lhing else having failed­ because it "was founded on European civilization." Shining Sendero shouldn't be given its tum." Path exists because "Spanish conquistadors ripped apart the Lest these ravings be dism�sed, the most recent study Inca empire and with it one of the world's great civilizations, " on Shining Path published by the RAND Corp. should be Strong writes. Peru's business and political elite is declared consulted. Prepared for a Defense Department project on to be genocidal, because "they feel they are fighting for a "Andean Futures: A Comparative Political, Economic, and superiorculture ." Security Assessment," author Gordon McCormick justifies The book is a 274-page racist diatribe against everything Shining Path as an Indian uprising against the heritage of which Peru has ever achieved as a nation. "Peru is not a the Spanish conquest and argues that because the Peruvian nation, anyway. It is a country wracked by a political and governmentdoesn 't "understand" it, they will sooncut Lima economic infrastructure that is rooted in prejudices inherited off from the interior, and collapse the old order.

36 International EIR July 31, 1992 Profile : Milan Panic

Serbianleader and theHoll ywood mafia

i The new prime minister of Serbial("Yugoslavia") , American citizen Milan Panic, took offic� in mid-July, amid wide­ spread predictions in the interna�ional press that his regime is intended to ease out the cOIDml!lnist dictator Slobodan Mi­ losevic, and possibly to pave the way for therestoration of the monarchy, under Crown Prince �lexander II Karageorgevic, who is touring the countrysideto! ra1ly support for his cause. The Vienna daily Die Presse on �uly 15 reported that Milo­ . sevic 's demise is a foregone conclusion-which only he him­ self does not recognize. Who is this unusual person, Who has seemingly emerged out of nowhere, to take a seat illlthe the cockpit of a region thatis exploding into W orId W llI]ill? Panic, who came to the United States at the age of 14, takescare to play up his friendlyq es to the U. S. State Depart­ ment-which gave the green light for his appointment. Asked at a press conference on Jl1ly 10 in Helsinki, Finland, whether he had any disagreemejDts with Secretary of State James Baker, Panic replied: "Mr. Baker is my secretary of state. How could I disagree with my secretary of state? . . . I think it is fair to tell you that everything that Mr. Baker wanted me to do, I would do \\Iithout Mr. Baker.... We

" are both Americans. f As to Milosevic: "God help lI1im if he gets in my way."

Ties to Clinton, Brown As chief executive of theCal�fornia finn ICN Pharmaceu­ ticals, Panic maintains extensiv� ties to the pro-drug Holly­ wood "mafia," including the circ,es associated withBi ll Clin­ ton's campaign manager Mifkey Kantor and Stanley Sheinbaum. Panic works closelYiwith Nathan Gardels, editor of New Perspectives Quarterly, the journalof thelate Robert Hutchins's Center for the Study! of Democratic Institutions. In addition to Kantor and Sheinb/lum,the publication's board includes Richard Dennis, who lis not only the moneybags behind the Drug Policy Found_tion, a leading propaganda outfit on behalf of drug decriqtinalization, but is also the second largest contributor to th� Democratic National Com- mittee. I

EIR July 3 1, 1992 International 37 Panic has a longstanding political and business relation­ ship with Jerry Brown, whose family's links to the California Interview: Edgardo L6pez Grimaldo mob are legion. Brown served on the board of Panic's ICN I Pharmaceuticals, whose Serbian subsidiary , Galenika, is run by a former U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia. Deputy Secre­ tary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, a protege of Henry Kis­ 'Colombia hasbe come singer and former president of Kissinger Associates, who s�rved as U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia, was on the board jailer' of ICN, as is Robert Abboud, formerly of the First National Endara's Bank of Chicago and Occidental Petroleum Corp. Javier Almario Panic has been the main contributor to the political action by committee which financed Brown's political activities after he stepped down as California governor. Brown served on Panamanian Maj. Edgardo Lopez Orimaldowas interviewed ICN's board from 1988 through 1991, for which he was paid by EIR correspondent Javier AlmQrio in the La Picota jail in $20,000 a year. During the presidential primaries, charges Bogota, Colombia on July 20. A fo rmer's pokesman fo r the surfaced in the media that Brown had tried to peddle his Panamanian Defense Forces and dide to Gen. ManuelNorie­ political influence in Congress on ICN's behalf. ga, he has been imprisoned in f!olombia with the aim of Questioned about Panic during an interview on John extraditing him to Panama on political charges. He is grave­ McLaughlin's "One-on-One" television broadcast July 4-5, ly ill and requires medical treatment by a specialist. His Brown said that Panic has been a political supporter of his attorneysare demanding his releaSe and that Colombia grant for 20 years, and said he hoped that his "friend" could help him political asylum. bring peace to the Balkans. "I imagine the State Department must be giving him some kind of a green light," Brown said. ''The Colombian government, surely without wishing to, has become the jailer, the policeman that imprisons the political His policies enemies of the illegal Panamanianigovernmentof Guillermo New Perspectives Quarterly recently distributed a col­ Endara," stated Edgardo LOpez Grimaldo, a major in the umn which Panic wrote on the Balkans crisis, which was also extinct Panamanian Defense Forces, who is now imprisoned published in the Washington Times. In it, Panic vowed to in the maximum security wing of tijeLa Picota jail in Bogota. disband and disarm all the "irregular" forces in Bosnia-Her­ There, he is waiting for the government of Cesar Gaviria cegovina. Concerning economic policy, he emphasized the Trujillo to either extradite him tol Panama, or else to grant priority of rapid privatization and payment of the foreign debt him political asylum. of former Yugoslavia. He wrote: "I will pursue a rapid policy LOpez Grimaldo was the head lof press and public infor­ of privatization modeled on the highly successful example of mation for the Panamanian Defense Forces when the United Galenika, which is now the subsidiary of . . . ICN Pharma­ States on Dec. 20, 1989 invaded !panama with 30,000 sol­ ceuticals .... diers-"half of them drugged," he $ay� Blackhawkheli­ "In the months ahead , my government also will pursue copters , laser-guided weapons, aDd Stealth bombers invisi­ an initiative to bring all the newly independent states of the ble to radar. At least 4,000persons died in the invasion. former Yugoslavia back into an economic union. Collective­ "They even killed 12,000 chickens and 600head of cattle ly, all the states owe $14 billion in foreign debt. Six that the Panamanian soldiers were rtlisingin a self-sufficiency billion dollars is owed by Serbia and the other $8 billion by plan to feed the troops," said LOpez. "It was that invasion the rest. which imposed the Endara governh1ent. It is an illegal gov­ "After Serbia reviews its assets and eliminates its debt, ernment which now pursues its political enemies inside and as a gesture of good will, I intend to propose that we also pay outside of Panama. off the debt of the others--Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia." "The greatfear of Endara and hismasters , the Americans While this blithe promise to pay off the debt will undoubt­ led by George Bush, is that in the next elections we can retake edly make former Yugoslavia's foreign creditors happy, Pan­ control of the country, that is, if thh allow more or less free ic may not find it as easy as he makes it sound. Why, back elections." They want me in prison because I am a powerful in the United States, the Resolution Trust Corp., the federal enemy, because I could be elected to the Legislative Assem­ authority mandated to bail out the bankrupt savings and loan bly and in the future become a ttationalist President that industry, is suing Panic for defaulting on an $8.4 million defends Panamanian sovereigntyt said LOpez Grimaldo. loan he assumed when he brought a motel in Mission Valley, Endara's lack of independence from Bush is so severe that California, in December 1985. According to the July 11 Los "the government itself and Endara's own supporters, call the Angeles Times, Panic also owns another Californiamotel on U. S. ambassador in Panama, Dean Hinton, 'the Proconsul.' which he has not paid his real estate taxes since 1990. ''They have been persecuting me since the invasion. First,

38 International EIR July 31, 1992 U.S. troops raided my house three times. One of my sons his invasion produced 4,000 victim�, each of those 4,000 per­ was thrown in a concentration camp run by U.S. troops. I sons has at least five family membets opposing him. sought asylum in the Peruvian embassy. While I was there, "Endara and Bush know that the Panamanian situation charges were brought to prevent my being granted political is explosive. Panama, which under [Omar] Torrijos was a asylum. The man who brought the charges is the supposed prosperous nation, now has 28-30% unemployment, the most owner of La Exitosa radio station.He alleged that I sent some of any Latin American country. That's why they they want soldiers to destroy the station. us nationalists either behind bars, fleeing,or dead. "The prosecutor in the case asked that the charges be "The invasion of Panamawas npt to capture Noriega to put dropped,because there is no proofof this falseaccusation. But, him on trial.It was to destroy the Defense Forces, whose very now that I am held prisoner in Colombia, the judge, instead of existence is a requirement of the 1forrijos-Carter treaty.The ruling,returned the papers to the prosecutor and asked that I be canal treaty calls for Panama to be capable of protecting the called in for questioning, to get my statements for the record. canal in the year 2000. Now that th�reis no Defense Force,but Am I going to testify against myself? Couldn't an affidavit be only police with whistles and nigh.sticks, the United States is submitted to the prosecutor through a consulate?" going to say that Panama is not ready to protect the canal and "This is clearly a political persecution," stated L6pez that the gringo troops will have to �main." Grimaldo. "What am I doing in a Colombian jail, when I Our last question to L6pez Grimaldo was: "Why do you have committed no crime in this country?" he asked. think Manuel Antonio Noriega �tered the Nunciatura in­ stead of organizing a guerrilla resistance movement?" Warrant prepared long before Major L6pez Grimaldo repli�d: "Because Noriega had The arrestwarrant with the goal of extradition was signed enough sense of responsibility to his people and his country April 27 , 1992 by former Foreign Minister FernandoCarillo, to stop the massacre.The gringo s�ldiers there were drugged, under a 1928 extradition treaty that was only valid for five and they were shooting everythjng that moved, and they years. The warrant was signed long before L6pez Grimaldo were going to continue doing tha� until they found Noriega. came to Colombia. Noriega acted responsibly." At the beginning of 1990, L6pez Grimaldo was granted a safe conduct by the Endara government, so that he could leave Panama for Peru, where the governmentof Alan Garda had agreed to give him political asylum.When Alberto Fuji­ mori came to power, the Endara governmentrequested L6pez L6pezGrimaldo in a Grimaldo's extradition.Fearing that the new Peruvian gov­ ernmentwould revoke his political asylum, L6pez Grimaldo grave state of health left Peru.He went to Chile, and finally he relocated to Ecua­ dor, where he was living with his wife. Since his wife is "While Edgardo L6pez GrillJillldo was in the prison Ecuadoran, he requested a resident visa. cells of the DAS secret servic¢ in Bogota, he had two "They told me that I would have to request the the visa severe attacks of high blood pfessure," a businessman in my country, but since that was not possible, I could ask who was jailed for seven days along with him told EIR . for it in a country that was friendly to both Panama and to "L6pez turnedpurple and his �s got red, and we had Ecuador." That's why he came to Colombia. He crossed the to urgently ask that a doctor s¢e him. We thought that border at Ipiales, a Colombian town bordering Ecuador, and he was going to die." sought and obtained the visa he needed.As he was returning "My blood pressure was up to 210/120 when I had to Ecuador, he was arrested by Colombian DAS security those attacks," commented LOpez Grimaldo. "Now, agents attached to Interpol. my pressure is 160/90 and the doctor ordered me to "In Ecuador, I was living very peacefully and no one take a double dose of the medicine that I was takingto knew that I was there, until one day Harmodio Arias, En­ lower my blood pressure." dara's ambassador, saw me and raised a great hue and cry. Physicians consulted by lflR agreed that such ex­ He immediately contacted Panama, and the Panamanian gov­ tremely high blood pressure would put L6pez Grimaldo ernment requested my extradition.The Ecuadorans ignored in a high-risk category for a heart attack or cerebral the request, but the Colombian government took it up," said hemorrhage. Major L6pez. His attorneys have sought to have him moved to a "Now Endara is much more anxious to put me in jail. hospital for immediate attention. Nevertheless, he has He wants to eliminate the opposition, especially after what been in La Picota jail more : than 15 days since his happened to Bush, who had the fantasy that he would be re­ attack, and the Colombian Justice Ministry has not ceived as thehero who liberated Panama from the terrible dicta­ responded to the request. tor, Manuel Antonio Noriega. Bush does not understand that if

EIR July 31, 1992 International 39 action finallyforced President G.viria to order a "temporary" transfer of Escobar to a military base while security at the drug lord's jail was "tightened up." The three unarmed government officials sent to inform Escobar of the transfer served effectively as a warning to the drug traffickers, who broke out their arsenal, employ�d their hostages as a time­ buying device, and used pre-4esigned escape hatches to Escobar escapes, elude a military dragnet. As Gen. Farouk Yanine, who was in charge of the belat­ war returns to Colombia ed military assault on the prisoQ, was to bitterly point out, "They only told us to surround the prison and increase security; later we were told to tty to free the hostages." by Andrea Olivieri Escobar's dramatic escape is but the latest blow to the already severely diminished credibility of President Gaviri­ The well-planned escape of Medellin Cartel kingpin Pablo a's administration. Attempts to i negotiate the amnesty and Escobar from his customized Colombian prison has signaled return to civilian life of thousankls of heavily armed narco­ the demise of President Cesar Gaviria' s carefully constructed terrorists under the umbrella Sin!l6n Bolivar Guerrilla Coor­ "narco-democracy," and the return of full-scale war to Co­ dinating Group were finally abandoned in July, after more lombia. As former Justice Minister Enrique Parejo Gonza­ than a year of on-again, off-again "peace talks" with terrorist lez, one of the country's few surviving heroes of the coun­ chieftains who responded to each concession by the govern­ try's war during the 1980s against narco-terrorism, ment with a fresh escalation of tctrrorist assaults and assassi­ commented on the new crisis facing the country, "The Presi­ nations against both military anti civil targets. dent has demonstrated that he lacks the moral authority to President Gaviria's sole "s4ccess story," the amnesty continue ruling the country. .. . He should be asked to and incorporation into the government of the M-19 narco­ resign." terrorists best known for their blbody November 1985 siege The bloody escapade in Medellin on July 21, during of the Colombian Justice Palace which left 100 dead, was which at least six people were killed when a botched attempt nearly overturned in June when a courageous judge ordered to transfer Escobar to a military base triggered a hostage­ the arrest of more than a dozen M-19 leaders for the commis­ taking and shootout with military commandos, is the lawful sion of "atrocious crimes" during that siege. Only a last­ consequence of an unholy pact that was struck between the minute intervention by Gaviria'$ presidential office contra­ Cesar Gaviria government and the billionaire drug trafficker vening the judiciary prevented the warrants from being en­ and his cohorts over a year ago. forced. After blackmailing the government and bribing the ille­ gally convoked National Constituent Assembly into approv­ 'The war is on' ing a constitutional ban on extradition (see p. 41), Escobar The Medellin Cartel's one-year suspensionof indiscrimi­ agreed to end his reign of narco-terror and to "surrender" to nate and large-scale acts of terrbrism-a hiatus more than Colombian authorities in exchange for a U.S.-modeled filled by the bloody actions of tlhe FARC and ELN narco­ "plea-bargain." The deal worked out with the governmentin guerrillas-isended. According to phone calls to the Colom­ effect constituted the legalization of Escobar's dirtybilli ons, bian media from self-proclaimed spokesmen for Escobar in following a short rest and relaxation stint in his personal the 24-hour period immediately after the prison break,"The five-star prison. war is back on." One hostage ati the prison claimed to have Gaviria was able to boast of being "the President of heard Escobar promise to "mak� it rain car-bombs." peace," and the Bush administration, which had backed President Gaviria's only chance for political survival at Gaviria's appeasement policy toward narco-terrorism every this point is to give the Colombian Armed Forces both the step of the way, now had a new world order "democracy" mandate, and the means, to wage total and absolute war to promote globally. against the narco-terrorist enemy. In 1990, the Colombian leader devoted $350 million to the militarybudget, one-third Warned in advance of what it is was spending in pa�ments on the public debt. But things went awry. Escobar's continued day-to-day The demilitarization strategists who played a major role in management of his vast cocaine empire-including regular drafting the country's new and "ignominious" Constitution, business meetings with his henchmen and trials of potential and who have been working hand-in-glove with the narco­ rivals inside his five-star jail--<:ould no longer be ignored terrorists to pave the way for the easy ascent to power for when at least a dozen mutilated bodiesof those rivals began these guerrillas, should be well advised as to the punishment appearing on the outskirts of Medellin.The public clamor for for treason under conditions of war.

40 International EIR July 31, 1992 Colombia: the genesis of the world's firstnar co-democracy by Javier Almario

July 4, 1992 was the first anniversary of Colombia's new of former Constituent Assembly delegates and other nota­ Constitution, written by 70 delegates chosen by less than bles. Everyone attended, except Marcos Chalita, the "for­ one-fourth of that country's voting population. "It could be mer" M- 19 narco-terrorist who was arrested on July 1 in dubbed the Constitution of ignominy, or of surrender," pro­ possession of fragmentation bombs and other weapons exclu­ nounced former Justice Minister Enrique Parejo Gonzalez, sively provided to the Colombian Armed Forces. Chalita, one of Colombia's few surviving heroes of the years of war­ who was known as the bloodiest of all the M-19 "command­ fare against narco-terrorism. Or, as one international narcot­ ers," was given legal status as an M- 19 "leader" as a result ics expert quoted by the Washington Post of July 20 put it, of the M- 19 amnesty and pardon, approved in 1989 and "What you are seeing now is the birth of the first narco­ applauded by Washington. He went on to help write the democracy in the world." Constitution. The Bush administration was instrumental in creating the All other members of the M -19, led by Antonio Navarro conditions which led to the adoption of Colombia's "igno­ Wolf--one of the three co-chairs of the Constituent Assem­ minious" Constitution. Not only has Washington denied Co­ bly-attended the government's celebration, despite the ex­ lombia the financial resources, the military equipment, and istence of a judge's order for Wolf's arrest stemming from the political backing for a serious war on drugs, but it is also the commission of "atrocious crimes" during the bloody siege behind the criminal appeasement policy of "peace negotia­ of Colombia's Justice Palace in 1985. By the good graces tions" and plea-bargains that fed into the Constitution as it of President Cesar Gaviria and the Colombian Congress, a currently stands. The Bush administration is now seeking to special law blocking enforcement of the arrest warrant was impose similar "constitutional reform" around the globe, but decreed, overriding the judiciary and allowing Navarro and especially in such countries as EI Salvador, Peru , Guatemala, company to arrive at the Government Palace and partake in and Brazil. The effect, of course, would be a proliferation of the festivities unhampered by their terrorist past. such narco-terrorist "democracies" around the globe. The oligarchic 'consensus' Mafia blackmail At the celebration, President Gaviria pledged to defend In his commentary on the one-year-old Constitution, Par­ the new Constitution, .whose fundamental thesis is the re­ ej o noted that on the express demand of the drug cartels, it placement of natural law and the concept of the common prohibits, for the first time in Colombian history, the extradi­ weal with an ever-shifting consensus among political forces. tion of nationals. "We cannot be proud of the fact that one This consensus became, at the moment of truth, a consensus of our fundamental constitutional statutes is, at least in part, among the country's oligarchic �lites. "I cannot allow the the fruit of criminal blackmail and of a lack of moral courage greatest collective work of pluralist participation in Colombi­ on the part of those who, charged with carrying out a task of an history to be scorned," said Gl'Iviria in his July 4 address, such transcendental importance for the future of the country , which was intended to refute Parejo and the many others who turned out to be inferior to their historic task," declared the have criticized the new Constitution. Gaviria congratulated former minister and current Bogota city councilman. "The the several groups of "former" guerrillas who participated in shadow of the drug trade, or rather, of bloody terrorism drawing up the 1991 Constitution: "From rebels against the unleashed by criminal organizations dedicated to that illegal Constitution of 1886, they became co-authors of the Consti­ activity," is a "shadow which was present at all times" in the tution of 1991." deliberations of the Constituent Assembly. Nonetheless, the Colombiaa popUlation has already Nonetheless, the Gaviria government celebrated the first made known its rejection of the new Constitution, and of the anniversary of its surrender to the drug mob with a gathering Constituent Assembly which wrote it. In the firstpla ce, fewer

EIR July 31, 1992 International 41 than 25% of the Colombian electorate even bothered to vote assigned to trytheir cases. for the Assembly delegates. Further, according to a July 5 On the economic front, national life has gone from bad poll published by the daily El Tiempo, a full 58.8% of those to worse. The new Constitution stripped the central bank of who did vote for the delegates said they felt tricked, and all the functions it exercised as a development bank; today, would not vote for another such Assembly. And 72% of those the central bank is limited to issuing currency to back up who voted declared themselves dissatisfied with the final dollars coming into the country. lAnd, to cut back on money results of the Assembly's work. in circulation, the central bank's bpen-marketoperations will The government, which deployed all of its power to force be paid with budget allocations, since any new currency the Supreme Court to accept the legality of the Constituent printed is considered inflationary. Worst of all, the Bank of Assembly (the 1886 Constitution forbade its own reform, the Republic is now operating as an absolutely independent except by the vote of two consecutive Congresses) , argued entity over which the Colombian people cannot exercise their that the new Constitution would serve to guarantee the na­ sovereign will, not even through the President whom they tional peace, strengthen justice, improve the economy and elect. public services, strengthen the institutions, and eliminate the vice of corruption in the Congress. Loss of economic sovereignty None of these promises have been met, nor are they likely Every sector of the economy has been affected by this to be met. Gaviria insists that the Constitution needs time to dictatorship over the credit system. Industry and agriculture adjust, since Colombia is in "a period of transition." But the are being strangled for lack of capital. Public servicesare in key problem is the "consensual" vision of Cesar Gaviria dramatic decline. The government wants to shirk all respon­ and the Harvard "whiz kids" with which he has stocked his sibility for the nation's basic irtfrastructure; thus the new administration, whose ideology does not match the Catholic Constitution favors privatization. The result is that there is matrix of this country, a matrix which assumes that natural no electricity in most of the country except for a few hours law and the common good must be the guiding forces of good each day, and there are whole sectors of the country which government. Within Gaviria's consensus view of govern­ are already experiencing water rationing as well. "ment, fall the political parties, the guerrillas, and the drug At the same time, the Gaviria government has rammed traffickers. The Constitution of 1991 was the direct result of two separate tax reforms throughl Congress. The most recent such a consensus, in which the real Colombia plays no part. one is premised on the argument that the countrymust recover income lost when customs tariffs on imports were lowered Neither peace nor justice to accommodate the so-called apertura, or free-marketopen­ Peace has not been won. The FARC and ELN terrorists ing of the economy dictated by PresidentGeorge Bush. Thus, have seen their M-19 colleagues receive a cabinet post and new taxes are required to financethe cost of the new institu­ 17 of 70 Assembly seats by the mere act of disarming, and tions created by the 1991 Constitution. they are convinced that more terrorism and bloodshed will To win congressional approval for said reform, President win them that much greater concessions. More fundamental Gaviria resorted to all the old vicies characteristic of the cor­ is the fact that the government's monetarist and free market rupt Congress itself: He promised everything from public economic policies prevent any solution to the country's dev­ appointments and congressional �alaryincreases to presiden­ astating infrastructure collapse and rising poverty levels, all tial authorization to collect privileges prohibited by the new of which feed directly into escalating terrorism. Constitution-all in exchange for the most absolute "fidelity" Justice has not been strengthened. On the contrary, the of the ruling party congressional bloc. A genuinely indepen­ new Constitution has broken the justice system into pieces, dent Congress would never have approved the reform. In­ weakening the already moribund institution even further. A deed, immediately following passage of the reform, Gaviria Constitutional Court has been created to rule on the constitu­ proceeded to revamp his cabinet to better reflectthe constella­ tionality of laws, once the purview of the Supreme Court. tion of political forces that stood with him on the tax reform. A General Prosecutor's Office has been created, a sort of Of course, when all is said and done, the new Constitution caricature of the U.S. Attorney General's office which, at its is a matter of political conveniencb, to be ignored when it gets whim, deploys prosecutors against anyone who displeases in the way. Thus, when Attorndy General Carlos Gustavo the U.S. establishment. A General Inspector's Office now Arrieta demanded to know why the Gaviria government had exists, a kind of judge charged with trying crimes against the suspended military operations against the FARC and ELN national budget, and so forth. There are clashes among these leaders to permit their safe passage back into the country in different judicial bodies on an almost daily basis. late June, Gaviria's "peace adviser" Horacio Serpa Uribe And as if that weren't enough , the Gaviria government answered that the peace negotiations the government had and the national congress regularly intervene to create been holding with the terrorists in Mexico corresponded to laws in their own name favoring the traffickers and their an "extra-constitutional" process� within the realm of presi­ terrorist allies, even as these continue to threaten the judges dential discretion.

42 International EIR July 31, 1992 Andean Report by Gerardo Te ran Canal

Cultural relativism pushed in Chile songs deliver subliminal "demonic" Advocates of the "pluralistic" state want to redefine the role of messages, and warned that the group's pres nce in Chile would en­ education and the Armed Forces. � courage the p/roliferation of sects and rites harmfulto human beings. In refutin$the bishops, Education Minister Lagc>s simply confirmed the church's woilt fears: "The state can­ Like the rest of Ibero-America's sponded to this assault on natural law . not be, or express, a monopoly over erstwhile "democracies," the govern­ In statements published in El M ercur­ only one truth," he said, "because ment of Chilean President Patricio io July 7, Msgr. Felipe Bacarezza, of then the pluralistic and democratic Aylwin is attempting to undermine the the church's Doctrinal Commission, state cannot exist. We are promoting principles of western, Christian cul­ stated, "I think it is a fraud to say that values based �n the human person and ture which underlie the country's most no conception of man exists, and at these are thej values concentrated in important institutions, and still repre­ the same time, to try to educate. " Chilean socif1ty. " sent a moral reserve for a population In an interview with El Mercurio Military feaders have responded subjected to almost 20 years of "flea June 28, Monsignor Bacarezza had sharply to attempts by some parlia­ market" economics. One of the vehi­ spoken at greater length on this topic. mentarians tP eliminate obligatory cles through which this is being pro­ "To say that an educational document military serv�e, seeing these as relat­ moted is the government's education­ has no conception of man is impossi­ ed to the assault on western culture. al reform, which requires altering the ble, because then it is not education. During this y¢ar's ceremony swearing Constitution; another is the attempt to . . . The problem with this document in new Arm� recruits held July 9, eliminate obligatory service in the is that it is relativistic." Bacarezza, Brig. Gen. Arturo Silva Soupe, vice Armed Forces. who belongs to the Vatican's Congre­ commander of the Army's Second Di­ The two issues are related. The gation for Education, added that "rela­ vision, stated: that "obligatorymilitary 1990 book The Military and Democ­ tivism argues that all conceptions are service is notJtingmore than the unal­ racy:The Future o/ Civil-MilitaryRe­ equally good, and that is not true­ terable exten�ion of the national will lations in Latin America, which EIR it's impossible. It cannot be true that to remain united in the search for the has made famous as the "Bush manu­ man is-and simultaneously is not­ general cOlllQlon good." al" for destroying the continent's a creation of God; or that man's ulti­ That is why, the general said, armed forces, warnsthat the militaries mate purpose is to take pleasure in "when we nbte with concern that in of the Southern Cone of Ibero­ God and at the same time that he has some sectors lof modem society, there America in particularhave a "danger­ no purpose." is a tendency Ito make everything rela­ ous" commitment to defending the Msgr. Antonio Moreno, the arch­ tive-for e"ample, discussing the values of the "Christian West . . . bishop of Concepci6n, who is a mem­ usefulness ot the justice of military honor, dignity, loyalty" (seeEIR , Jan. ber of the same commission, charged service-this only reinforces our ab­ 11, 1991). The book argues that such that the educational reform's purpose solute conviQtion that the correctpath an outlook is "messianic" and "eth­ "is to teach values and culture; but it's is that indic�ed by the law and faith icist," and must be replaced with a not clear exactly what principles gov­ in . . . the �piritual, the values and more "pragmatic" view. ernmentagencies will use to develop traditions ofJ. ur Fatherland." Education Minister Ricardo this new culture." General �ilva Souper called on the Lagos, a member of the Chilean So­ On June 23, another bishop, new recruits not to allow themselves cialist Party, recently presented the Msgr. Javier Prado addressed the to be "draggM down by the agnostic government's educational reform bill church's concern with education and materialistic current which appears to to Congress. Its basic axiom is that culture when he called on the Aylwin be overpoweting the new generation's "the state has no precise conception of government to ban a performance by youth," and he urged them not to fear man, because it is a non-confessional the Iron Maiden rock group, which "fighting the I negation of those values state." he characterized as a "psychological which allow us to clearlyidentify that Representatives of the Chilean microbe" threatening the nation's which is on the side of the good, and Catholic Church immediately re- youth. He charged that the group's that which is; not."

EIR July 31, 1992 International 43 Germany

Mlloa

Germany sets I8-year transportation plan by Rainer Apel

With the release by the Gennan government, after a long delay, of the new federal transport plan, mandating invest­ ment of nearly OM 500 billion ($330 billion) by the year 2010, the coast is finallyclear for a realprogram of infrastruc­ ture building to begin. For the first time in 30 years, the state's expenditure for rail construction will be higher than that for highways. The OM 108 billion for new railroads, compared to OM 99 billion allocated for highways, is still 'B_rIlI too little to be called a change in priorities; but the project .A"IIsburg that the Bonn government has adopted will be able, by the • Munich year 2010, to shift 10% of the expected volume of transports from road to rail, as the volume of rail transport itself dou­ AUSTRIA bles. Railroads will again play an importantrole in the trans­ port of people and goods. The prerequisitefor this, since transportneeds arecontin­ uing to expand, is that the project be implemented in such a way-including the constructionof state and interstate high­ Transrapid "bullet train" and the :track to link Hamburg and ways-that traffic jams will not become a permanent phe­ Berlin, Germany's two biggest

44 International EIR July 31, 1992 Report from Bonn hy RainerApel

Pop-front tactics and black propaganda ous urban areas. The "committee" is Communists and opponents o/ united Germany see their chance an attempt to employclassic popular­ fronttactics to rally other political cur­ to make a comeback in the eastern economic depression . rents behind thbPDS . On paper, the potential is there: Polls show that opposition to Bonn is growing in all parties, and discontent Socialism is alive in the minds of aims to establish local subcommittees with the "west¢rnway of makingpoli­ fonner communists who survived the throughout Gennany that would be a tics" has led tq developments such as collapse of the regimes in the fonner catalyst for a "broad protest move­ the decision in :late Aprilof 63 eastern East bloc. They harbor the idea that ment of citizens" against Bonn, said deputies of the Christian Democratsin the economic depression in the West the time was favorable because "pub­ the Gennan Parliament to fonn their may offera second chance for a return lic discontent" with Chancellor Hel­ own lobbying group inside the party. to power. mut Kohl's economic policy in the "The east Gennans have to speak They have money, which theyman­ East was growing to an extent that a up on behalf of and realize their own aged to smuggle into the West, and po­ "real mouthpiece" was needed to in­ interests," s�id the "committee" litical backing:In the case of the fonner crease the pressure on Bonn. founding pamphlet. It remains to be East Gennan communists of the SED Indeed, labor discontent is build­ seen, though, whether the fonner party, among their backers are enemies ing in the fiveeastern states of Genna­ communists benefit from the anti­ of united Gennany such as the World ny, where 70% of the pre- 1989 indus­ Bonn sentiment, as the memory of the Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation trial capacity and labor force have SED regime that ran East Gennany League, and policymaking circles in the been "phased out." There have been into economic and political collapse U.S., U.K., Israel, and in the East, protest marches, strikes, and other la­ in the summer of 1989, is still fresh. where KGB networks are still running bor actions in the past months, and The chief beneficiariesof the black penetration, disinfonnation, and espio­ 26,000 shipbuilders in the five Baltic propagandawi l!1be among anti-Gennan nage operations into Gennany. ports launched a strike earlier this year circles abroad, 'for the time being. The Gregor Gysi, the chainnan of the protesting Bonn and European Com­ founding pamphletpointed in thisdirec­ PDS , the successor party to the SED, mission plans to close the shipyards. tion, when it said: "In the Federal Re­ has been meeting political leaders of Shipyard workers in Rostock on public of Gennany and beyond that the anti-Gennan faction during trips July 19 announced plans for an "au­ throughoutEurppe, fears of theEurope­ to Moscow, London, and Jerusalem. tumn of protest" which would feature an process of integration are increasing, On July 11, Gysi and other party a rally of workers from 250-300east­ because the unification of Gennany is officialsof the SED (now members of ern industrial plants in front of the seenas a worrisome example. . . .Ex­ the PDS) announced the fonnation of chancellor's office in Bonn Sept. 7. treme right-wing and racist sentiments a so-called Committee for Justice. Several hundred labor leaders in the are dangerously gaining ground in this The list of 69 signers of the pamphlet eastern states will meet for a demon­ situation. " included leading exponents of the strative congress on Oct. 3, the nation­ Such driv� is printed daily in the SED cultural warfare against West al "Gennan unityday ," debating alter­ British press, but the fact that the PDS Gennany: Stefan Heym, Stephan Her­ natives to Kohl's policy of "phased" made it an important issue leads us mlin, and Heiner Muller. foreclosure of east Gennanindustri es. back to the tal�s between the SED and The list also included notorious This is not a labor initiative origi­ Edgar Bronf�'s Zionist group, the persons like Heinrich Albertz, the nating in the PDS-Ied "committee," World Jewish Congress, in the 1980s, Protestant minister who has been a but with the fonnercommunists who, and even beyond the fall of the Berlin spokesman since the early 1970s for in the mid-1980s, had 2.3 million Wall. The agenda then included pros­ the alleged "political aims" of terror­ card-carrying members. In the most pects of joint Steps to block or at least ists, and Eugen Drewennann, the recent municipal elections, they have slow down, ddfame, and sabotage the would-be Martin Luther of today and been able to consolidate about 20% of unification of Gennany. Klaus Gysi, a left-wing cultist who is a rallying the vote in the bigger cities of east a ranking SEQ official and the father point for anti-Vatican sentiments. Gennany. The PDS ranks third in of PDS chainnanGregor Gysi, played Leaders of the committee, which most precincts and second in numer- a role in these talks.

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Pierre Chevenement, meanwhile, has re­ nancial comPensation and told to live some­ U.N. is an advertiser signed from the French Socialist Party exec­ where else. I fo r U. S., says Saddam utive bureau, and has created his own move­ The deal would freezeout Syria, putting ment against Maastricht, which will be the "territorial question over the horizon." Iraqi President Saddam Hussein denounced launched in August. Maastricht represents PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat told a sci­ the U.N. as "America's advertising agency," "the triumph of the bankers, high interest entific gathering in Cairo on July 11 that he rates, and recession," he charged. He in a defiantspeech commemorating the 1968 saw no reason for optimism despite Israeli coup which brought the Ba' ath Partyto pow­ warned that the French Socialist Party was Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's efforts to being converted into a "local version of the er in Iraq . Hussein attacked the leaders of speed up the$o-called peace process. Arafat U.S. Democratic Party," and that, fromhere Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, declaring, "What noted that Rabin's language has changed on, "I am going to express myself as a citi­ is needed is a jihad to purge the Arab nation since his election. "I say to Rabin, your zen and not as a leader of the Socialist of these treacherous leaders who have be­ political lan�uage has changed after the Party." come a shameful burden on our region." He elections froin that before the polls. Rabin Mitterrand, who recently was met with called Great Britain a "partner in crime" [has now] said he would not withdraw from a wave of protest actions by truckers and with the United States in trying to recolonize occupied lands without holding a public farmers , admitted that "the likelihood of an Iraq. referendum. l ..I don't see Rabin as differ­ explosion is increasing little by little" in ent from [fonner Prime Minister Yitzhak] Oman and Bahrain, two members of the France's big-city suburbs. The latest out­ Sharnir. Unft>rtunately, some of our Arab coalition in the war against Iraq, and Jor­ break of rioting occurred in Epinay-sous­ brothers have slipped and welcomed him." dan, sent messages of congratulations to Severt, southeast of Paris. Mitterrand de­ Rabin h� suspended new construction Hussein. scribed the reality in such suburbs as "a contracts for housing in the Occupied Terri­ Despite increasing threats from U.S. of­ world akin to a concentration camp." The tories in preparation for the arrival in Israel ficials, Iraq indicated on July 18 that it will government is taking measures to deal with of U.S. Sec�tary of State Jarnes Baker on not give in to demands from the U.N. Secu­ the situation, he said, but it would take July 20. rity Council that U�N. weapons inspectors "years to see the results ." be allowed to search the Ministry of Agri­ culture. "We will not back down and let the stray dogs desecrate the ministry building," U. S. ecdnomy too said Agriculture Minister Abdul-Wahab Rabin peace deal Mahmoud al-Sabbagh, according to weak/or superpower role Reuters . aimed at Jordan Iraq insists that the ministry is a civilian The morose state of the U.S. economy pro­ installation and dismisses the inspection as A "deal is being cooked up between Israel, vides no basik for any "new world order" as an insult, an infringement of sovereignty, the Palestinians, and Jordan whereby Jor­ proposed by , President Bush, fonner Ger­ and a U.S.-inspired attempt to prevent any dan is brought into the security orbit of man Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said in a lifting of the trade sanctions imposed after Israel," a Middle East specialist recently lecture at the ;European Chairmen's Sympo­ its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. told EIR . sium held in .!Rottach-Egern, Germany July The deal would reportedly designate 11. Jordan's borders with other Arab states as Schmidt said that the project of a new Mitterrand/eeling the the security borders of Israel. The deal world order cannot be taken that seriously would mandate Jordan to agreenot to allow outside the United States, as it has been de­ heat on Maastricht Treaty its territory or airspace to be used for attacks signed by B�sh mainly for domestic pur­ on Israel, and restrict the types of weapons poses. The main obstacle to a stable world French President Fran�ois Mitterrand de­ Jordan can possess. economy an41 political order, next to the fe nded the Maastricht 'freaty for European ''The deal would require a lot of money, "floating coristellation of forces" that has Union with "passion" in comments on Bas­ like the Camp David agreement that cost emerged froQIthe collapse of the East bloc, tille Day on July 14, which indicates the the U.S. taxpayer $4 billion of aid to Israel is the bad coijdition of the U.S. economy. "rising political temperaturesin France," the a year as well as $2 billion for Egypt," the "America is not in the situation to lead London Financial Times reported. While specialist said. Israel would only give up the world .. ; . The United States is highly polls are showing majority support for the land in an autonomy agreement in returnfor vulnerable, without the Americans them­ treaty, French opinion is "very volatile," and financial compensation which "could cost selves noticidg it," Schmidt said. there is concern in pro-Maastricht circles billions." The deal would not include a Pal­ Schmidt's assessment was echoed by the that the referendum, set for Sept. 20, could estinian state or any right of return. Palestin­ Swiss daily Thgesanzeiger on July 14, which be "misused" to vote against the unpopular ians living in camps outside the Occupied said that the 'U.S. economy is too weak to Mitterrand, the paper warned. Te rritories, such as in Lebanon or Jordan, provide any muscle to United States foreign Former French Defense Minister Jean- would be given Jordanian passports and fi- policy.

46 International EIR July 31, 1992 Brilifl.y

• JAPAN has launched a quiet dip­ lomatic effort to limit Moscow's arms sales to Beijing, the July 14 after the recent murder of Egyptian writer Washington Post reported. Japan is Bosnian officials say Faruq Foda. said to be telling Moscow that upset­ Also critical, is the magnitude of the 'Jihad' a myth ting the military balance in Asia by conflicts in the region of Assiout, Upper strengtheniqg China with high-tech Egypt. According to official statistics, 25 The "Jihad" in Bosnia is a myth, according conventional weaponry will damage peoplehave died in the past two months in to Bosnian leaders interviewed by the Ma­ its chances fPr economic aid. clashes, and several dozen have been drid, Spain daily El Pais on July 18. wounded. Four thousand anti-riot police Tarik Haberic , an Islamic scholar who is • AN IRAr-nANcrackdown on dis­ have been moved into the region but, despite a member of the leadership of the Bosnian sidents was condemned by 230 Brit­ 1,000 arrests and detentions and a cease-fire Liberal Party, said, "To be a Muslim in Bos­ ish Members of Parliament from all in certain villages, order has still not been nia does not correspondto any real category. parties, who signed a statement pro­ reestablished. The authorities have found It is a pretext to justify aggression against testing an Iranian air raid in April on large amounts of arms, grenades, assault an entire people. . ..There is no chance a resistance base inside Iraq and called rifles, and other weaponry. that fundamentalism could take off here. I for a U.N. oil and arms embargo on Meanwhile, Gamaat has also taken ef­ expect the same help from the Muslim coun­ Iran, Reuters reported July 15. There­ fective control of entire suburban areas in tries that Sudan, Mauritania, or Palestine gime is even more brutal "than the Egypt's capital city of Cairo. Fears of an have gotten: nothing. The only help I hope Khomeini regime," Win Griffiths, "Algeria-like" situation are growing in for, is the conscience of western Europe ." one of the pCtition organizers, said. Egypt, the paperreport ed. Prof. Mohamed Filipovic, president of the Muslim Bosnian Party, said, "The word • PERSIAN GULF nations should Muslim is false, as it does not correspond to form a defeqse alliance on the model historical reality; it recognizes a false na­ Freemasonrytar gets of NATO, Adm. Raynor Taylor, tionality. I do not believe in fundamental­ commander of U.S. naval forces in ism. What we inherited from the Ottoman Russiafor expansion the Gulf, has urged, newspapers in Empire boils down to material culture: ar­ Abu Dhabi reported July l3. He sug­ chitecture and art. We Muslims never identi­ Jean-Robert Ragache, head of the French gested naming the alliance GULFO. fied with other states, Thrkey for example, "Grand Orient" lodge of Freemasonry, and Taylor said the U.S. wanted to avoid and never wanted to create a state alone. Jacques Orifes, a top French Freemason, re­ scaling bacJ<. forces too fast: "We When the nationalist movement arosein the cently traveled to Russia to discuss how don't want tb leave a vacuum." 1830s, for example, the Muslims expressed Freemasonry could expand in post-commu­ theirwish to live together with the Serbs and nist Russia, the Italian daily Carriere della • KUW AlT and the U.S. backed a Croatians in Bosnia." Sera reported on July 14. "Will we have a failed coup attempt in Sudan on July Russian P-2? It's not to be excluded," the 2, Afr ica Arwlysis, a London-based paper asked, referringto the P-2 freemasonic bulletin, reported. The attempt in­ Egypt announces harsh lodge in Italy which has been involved in the volved former President Ja'afer Ni­ destabilization of several Italian govern­ meiri. Azhari MustafaBanaga, an in­ measures against radicals ments. telligence officer in the Sudanese The two Freemasons were invited, the Army , was reported killed, and Gen. Egyptian authorities have announced a se­ paper revealed, by Pavel Voshchanov, a Ahmed Al Mehena, a former military ries of harsh measures in response to an of­ friend of Russian President Boris Ye ltsin, attache, and Abbas Madani, interior fensive of the radical Islamic "Gamaat" par­ who took them to a secret location at a dacha minister underNimeiri, werearre sted. ty in Upper Egypt, the French daily outside Moscow where they met with intel­ Liberation reported on July 17. The mea­ lectuals and journalists from Komsomol­ • THE aR,ITISH Labour Party sures include extension of the death penalty skayaPravda newspaper, and with the edi­ yesterday �elected John Smith, a to such crimes as attacks on churches, re­ tors of the "Vjesti" television show. Highland Sfot, as its leader, to re­ sisting police by force, and establishing con­ Corriere reported that the requests from place Neil Kinnock, who resigned tacts with foreign powers to foment attacks. Russians to become members of Freemason­ after losing the general elections to Harsh punitive measures have also beende­ ry are growing. The names of the so-called Prime Minister John Major's Tory creed for other criminal acts, and the Interior "firstlevel" recruits are being kept secret, in Party this Pllst April. Smith was the Ministry has said it will build four new pris­ pursuance of the traditional practice of Free­ shadow chapcellor of the exchequer ons in the desert. masonry, but one prominent "second level" (finance minister) and drafted La­ There is controversy over the means member is Georgi Arbatov of the U.S.A.­ bour's economic program, which is now being adopted, Liberation wrote, but Canada Institute, who played a central role more neo-llberal and less pro-labor there is a broad consensus on the necessity in concocting the "LaRouche ordered the than it has been inthe past. for the eradication of extremism, especially killing of Olof Palme" big lie in 1986.

EIR July 31, 1992 International 47 • �TIillMusic

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\ Mexico's true heritage of Classical music

by Alfredo Mendoza

Maestro Mendoza directed the Schola Cantorum of Mexico under Charles V. One of his virtues-perhaps he did not Cityin a concert of choral music. at the fo unding.conference have many-was that he loved music and encouraged the of the Ibero-American SolidarityMovement on May 19. 1992 development of Spanish music. Spain had an ancient school in Tlaxcala. Mexico. The Schola Cantorum. a choir of chil­ of composition which had arisen in relation to the form of dren (boys and girls ages 8-14) and teenaged boys. was the villancico. In secular music� the villancico is not just fo unded by Maestro Mendoza in 1988. It grew out of his what we now know as Spanish Christmas songs, but a form decade-long experience as director of the fa med BoysChoir adapted to many kinds of texts, both narrative and lyrical, of the National School of Music at the National Autonomous such as the religious type suited to the various feasts from Universityof Mexico. Theysang a two-part concert: Spanish Christmas to Easter, Corpus Clujisti, and so forth . Juan del Renaissance works. and colonial music from 1599 to the Encina, who figures at the end iof the 15th century as the early 19th century.What fo llows is a much-abridged l'e1fsion initiator of many forms of written lyrics, is also a musician of a talk he presented afterward. and set his own poems, generally in a very simple four-part structure which keeps its freshne$s right down to today. I would like you to hear a companion piece to what you heard The Spanish musicians of the time of Charles V were a little while ago. It is one of the first manuscripts which has concentrated in the Spanish Chapel led by Antonio de Cabe­ been discovered written in the local language. Nahuatl in this z6n. Spanish classical literature,:exemplified by St. Teresa, case. It was the result of the instruction which was given in and painters like Zurbaninand m Greco, had an influenceon the early years by the missionaries to the members of the this school. There is a religious inspiration which is different indigenous nobility, who were trained at the Tlatelolco from Italy's. This is translated into music; although it con­ School in the humanistic disciplines, along with religion. forms to the same polyphonic forms, such as the mass with The example you will hear is by Don Hernando Franco; the its parts-the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, and so forth, fo llowing date on the manuscript is 1599 . It is a "Santa Maria," the certain canons of counterpoint c�mmon to all of Europe-it second part of the prayer "Ave Maria," in Nahuatl, with some had a special imprint; certain melodic and harmonic influ­ extra words. This was recorded here in Mexico in 1989. ences had been left in the peninsula by the long contact The music transmitted by the missionaries was suffused with Arabic and Jewish ciVilization. The melodies and the with the polyphonic tradition on the one hand, called "or­ harmonic cadences give a speci# quality to Spanish music ganum," and on the other, with the old custom of plainchant, which distinguishes it from FrenCh and Italian music of that which went back to Byzantium. Afteronly a few years those period and from the most brilliant school of the day, the who had learnedto sing polyphonically and to play European Franco-Flemish school of counterpoint. instruments were already composing. And within 12-15 Charles V was educated in the Low Countries. He set up years , they were competing with Spaniards for musical jobs two chapels in the court: the Spjmish Chapel that followed in the churches. the Castilian tradition, and the Franco-Flemish Chapel which Remember, at the outset of the 16th century Spain was he brought with him. Through mutual contact, Spain then

48 Music ElK July 31, 1992 • adopted the new techniques of a more brilliant counterpoint century and they were in the 18tJt, they would say it was which abounded in imitation, and which had harmonic pro­ obsolete and burn it. In the Cathedralof Mexico there was a gressions. Spanish music benefited fromthis contact with the kind of cleanout during the 17th century, where they burned great Flemish polyphonists. all the old stuff, and incredible tre¥ures werelost. For exam­ In the Spanish school threegreat figures stand out: Cristo­ ple, here in Mexico the first opera'written in North America bal de Morales, who lived between 1500 and 1553; his pupil was produced, the "Partenope" by Manuel de Zumaya. We Francisco Guerrero, another great polyphonist whose "Prado know that it was very famous and very good; but no one

verde y florido," a very simple madrigal, we heard in today's knows where the notes are . No one preserved it. concert; and the crowning figure of this period in sacred So archival researchhas just blU"elybegun . What we have polyphony, Tomas Luis deVictoria. These threewere widely been talking about is the little which has been salvaged, and performed at a very high level all over America. Together it involves just a few specific archives. In South America, with other composers, their works have been found in the these are the Cathedral of Santa Fe in Bogota [Colombia]; archives of Bogota, Sucre, Lima, Mexico City, and Puebla. the Archbishop's Archive in LiIllJl [Peru]; the Seminary of These were the common property of many cathedrals, many St. Anthony Abbot in Cuzco [Peru]; the Cathedral of Sucre schools, and many choirs . [Bolivia]; the monasteryof St. Clare in Cochabamba [Boliv­ These figures in vocal music definedthe style which was ia]; Santiago in Chile; Montevideo [Uruguay], and La Paz adopted in our Hispano-American countries and formed an [Bolivia] . In addition, everything is there waiting for a very environment in which talents developed abundantly, in a specialized work of transcription into modem notation, and way unexpected by even the Spanish. Thus in the mid- 16th sometimes the work of joining the parts, because they did century , decrees went out saying that there should not be so not have the habit of making full scores. The score appears many music students-that some people should go to work, only at the end of the 18th century or at the start of the 19th, that everybody wants to play or sing! when you begin to have the part everyof instrument and This happenedin Mexico and the other colonies, because every \Voice written out together. :Previously, the composer therewas a natural willingness to assimilate what the natives had it all in his head and he would write out parts-the viewed as a miracle because it was different. The missionar­ soprano part, the violin part, the bass part. If you have lost ies realized that when they sang a prayer to the natives, they one of them, it is an impossible job to reconstruct. would pay attention to the music, and that sometimes people Besides, if you don't know the work you have to really would later stay for three or four hours in a house studying puzzle over it to make it fit together. This is very laborious, the song until everyone knew it. and since in our countries there is hardly ever a budget for This was an important vehicle of the Evangelization. It anything, what this all implies i$ that very little has been also led to the development of music itself, because people published of what there is. had an immediate interest in assimilating what they saw: What is sure, though, is that visitors, including very dis­ They saw a violin, they startedto play it, then they startedto tinguished, well-traveled persons, listened with delight to build them. Under theviceroys all the orchestral instruments the musical level which the principal cities-such as Lima, were built here in Mexico: violins, violas, flutes, oboes, Bogota, Cuzco--enj oyed. This wllSnot just in the viceregal bassoons. In contrast, today, if someone wants to study, find seats and provincial capitals. In Mexico for example not just out what it costs to buy a bassoon and where you have to go Mexico City, but Puebla, Guadalajara, and Oaxaca were to buy it. The only thing made in Mexico is guitars for parties major centers. Puebla directly COlI1peted with Mexico City

and students; a few luthiers make fine concert guitars and for teachers and directors. I violins, and that's it. We don't make any orchestra instru­ There was great zeal to cultiV\ate music as a discipline, ments here. All the orchestral instruments have to be bought and original compositions were in demandfor special occa­ in the United States or in Europe, Japan, and China. But in sions. The chapel master was thus obliged to compose as a the past all those instruments, including organs, were manu­ matterof routine, while special compositions were required factured by natives-supervised by artisan-entrepreneurs of him to mark certain occasions with novelties for the peo­ who took the economic responsibility for building the big ple. There was a great audience. iRemember, there was no organs, but the craftsmen who worked on them were natives. television; so, the brain still worked. I am speaking mainly of sacred music because it was Archival work has just begun what has been best preserved, thanks to the internal rules of Real interest in the colonial music of Latin America is convent and cathedral archives. !But secular music had a only a few decades old. Prof. RobertStevenson of California tremendous development as weill When the bowed instru­ first drew our attention to the treasures which we had piled ments developed in the 17th and 18thcentury with the Italian up and rotting in our cathedrals, in the archives, and which Baroque, here too they were composing withthe same tech­ have been saved from destruction. The old custom was that niques, works which can be sai41 to rival composers like when they had some piece of music from the 16th or 17th Handel and Corelli.

EIR July 31, 1992 Music 49 Some would have us believe that our national music be­ the plucked stringed instruments appeared (vihuelas, lutes, gan in the 20th century when a few ideologues like Diego guitars). In the 18th century com�s the apogee of the bowed Rivera created their own brand of nationalist modernism. instruments like violins, violas, kellos, and all the typical Almost everyone swallowed this story because we did not ensembles of the Italian Baroque .which were found here as know that we had a past, that there was something of our well. own which had a respectable production, good composers, a legacy of written music-that there was a certain pride in The challenge today the level which was attained. This music is waiting for its I would like to end with a refl�tion. The works you have audience. It is just startingto be recorded, in the last 30 years , just heard are ones which were �tten one day and sung the and it is just starting to be published. This heritage is well next. That is, there was a level cbmparable to Germany or worth researching and reviving, so that this music is heard any other place. There were people who read music, who had again. We are going to findexamples from the Renaissance, vocal and instrumental technique, had string instruments, i.e. a cappella polyphony in the imitative style, down to keyboards, and so forth. Then look around at the "great the Baroque with the homophonic forms with instrumental masters" we have today. These are the educators of our chil­ accompaniment, and the real splendor which is found in the dren, if you leave them a free h�d. to play records, watch 18th century with various masters. television, or read magazines. It is our challenge to save, among others, the Church The Ibero-American colonial composers from musical decadence. Out of :a desire for gate receipts, There are great names which must be mentioned: have we not seen how the music of the level I have described In Peru, there is Juan de Araujo, who was not bornthere is no longer known to anyone? And what do we hear? Rock but lived there from the age of 15 and was trained in Lima. and salsa in the churches. He was a great master in music, both strictly vocal, and I propose that we get back to giving this music its rightful instrumentally accompanied. Araujo was born in 1646 and place. Let us create the environment so that those teachers died in 1702. He arrived with the Count of Lemus, the Vice­ who are around and who are going crazy working all alone, roy of Peru, who brought him as a protege, and arranged find an echo in the population; that they find students who opportunities for his professional development. want to work, parents who want to give their children a moral Next came MaestroTomas de Torrej6n y Velasco, anoth­ future and to procure for them a !harmonic development of er Spaniard who was a great figurein Peru. He was in Bolivia their abilities. for some time too, and his works were very widespread. The great music of the past flourishedbecause there was Torrej6n y Velasco is a follower of the Spanish school and an environment, there was official support, there was an leftbehind a school of students. audience, there were families who said, "Here is my child to There is the special case of Jose de Orej6n y Aparicio be trained." That is what we need now. It is easy for us to who was born in Peru, a representative of the new style, stay at home and switch on the television and let the kids which is Neapolitan music, which reached the colonies with fend for themselves. the advent of the Bourbons, especially when Charles ill came But we need to get them out IOfth is. Let the youth, the to power. This marks a definite Italian influence, especially adults, everyone take part in some kind of activity like this. fromNaple s, because Naples was a Spanish dominion. These Only in this environment can the kind of talents that once masters adopted the Baroque instrumental style, the forms existed ariseagain . They readmU$ic , they sang solfege, they of the cantata and opera, with the combination of recitative played instruments, or they at lettst sang in a chorus. This and aria as we know them in Bach. has to be revived. The ordinary !citizen has to get back to In Mexico, there is also splendid music. First, the era of knowing music as it was known in the Renaissance, when a the Spanish style goes down to Zumaya and his teacher, person who did not write poems iand compose music was a Antonio de Salazar, and other forerunners like Aburto and nobody. We have to go back to this, so that our schools, our Loaiza, at the end of the 17th and the early 18th century. churches, and our surroundings ate full of music. Zumaya, for unknown reasons, leaves Mexico City and goes In my personal experience in teaching, I have always to Oaxaca to a lesser position, perhaps out of friendship for bucked the environment. When people have the choice, they the bishop who invites him there. With his withdrawal a will naturally choose the best. I hope that all of you, having purely Italianate master comes into the Mexico City post, heard the concert and this little tall¢,will be concernedenough indeed of Italian origin, Ignacio Jerusalem. He was a very to surround those who have the ability, with the support inventive composer, with a very good style, and he succeed­ they need to be teachers and artists. This will give a new ed in making the Italian forms totally at home in Mexico. environment to what is now conSidered as Latin American. Let us summarize the advances in instrumental music. What most people think is "Latini American," is a very poor First, in the 16th century, the instruments most built and form of art. I think we can makelour art equal to the best in played were wind instruments (metal and wood). In the 17th the world.

50 Music EIR July 31, 1992 Scotland needs to recover its lost soul: music by James MacMillan

trying to recover from this trauma {or the last 400years . Since a significant amount of this music was generated Scotland's Music by the Roman Church in Scotland, :one can undertand why it by John Purser became one of the major casualtie� of the Reformers' atten­ Mainstream. Edinburgh. 1992. £25 tions. What they vandalized was a.long and rich tradition of beautiful sacred music dating back to the ancient Celtic plain chants that were probably in use as early as theeighth century The fo llowing book review first appeared this sp ring in the A. D. We are lucky that some of the manuscripts of that music Edinburgh weekend supplement to The Scotsman. It is repub­ have survived, notably the Incholm Antiphone, which dates lished here with the kindpermission of the author, a conduc­ from the end of the 13th century. i tor and composer whose works have been performed in many These early chants have a char�ter of their own, certain­ European countries as well as in his native land. It has been ly similar to the Gregorian plainsong current in mainland slightly abbreviated and subheads have been added. Europe, but differentin structuraldeta il, reflecting the Celtic love of formal patterning (as seen ip the The Book of Kells). In times of political turmoil and change, the arts tend to The unique and independent q.ature of the early Celtic regenerate themselves, being influenced and inspired by the Church did not mean that it soug� distance from mainland wider social issues. European culture. However, John Purser seems to reinforce The Scots have always had more of a problem with music a major historical self-delusion that the Columban tradition than with the other arts-it is not seen to be as important in was an early example of the spiliitual rejection of Rome, the fiber of Scottish life. The Reformation's cultural holo­ and thus an early precursor (and e�cuse) for later schismatic caust may have something to do with this, or perhaps it is excesses. No retrospective self-ju�tification should hide the more to do with the class values of our educational system fact that religious traditions brought to Scotland via lona whch siphoned off "classical" music for the middle classes were fully Celtic and fully Roman; and left the rest of us to discover a love of music in the more Indeed, the most abiding perceppon of John Purser's book "egalitarian" trends of folk, jazz, or rock. is the blossoming of a musical IDtasury, which, in its pre­ When an artist's perspective is sought on any issue, the Reformation days, was a successtijU cohesion of indigenous poet, the writer, the film-maker can offer an insight which is Scottish elements with absorbed influences from continental illuminating and incisive. But for a musical point of view, we Europe . This can be seen in the ejU'ly stages of part-writing are usually left with a self-publicizing, self-preening pop star where the techniques of organum, �oneered at Notre Dame in who has mastered the art of the sound-byte and the American Paris, assumed a Scottish flavor wift the use of interval types accent (necessary for this borrowed culture) and not much else. which seem peculiar to this countrY. The balance of Scottish The sad fact is that Scotland's music remains an unknown or cosmopolitanism with a national cultural confidence was at its ignored quantity for most Scots, but a universal knowledge of height in the Renaissance golden �e at the courts of James it must be acquired if our present quest for self-awareness and N and James V. From this background emerged Scotland's self-determination is to be anything like complete. greatest composer, Robert Carver, � Augustinian canon who Purser's writing style is florid but entertaining, scholarly trained at Scone. Purser's claim th� Carver's music was on a but undaunting , committed without lapsing into groundless par with anything in mainland Europeis provocative, but seems propaganda. secure when one makes comparisons. What is made painfully clear in the first half of this book Carver was probably educated:at the University of Lou­ is that Scotland had a rich and civilized musical culture, vain, today in Belgium, where he �ncountered and absorbed on a par with any thriving country in Europe, which was the music of Ockeghem, Dufay, and Josquin. His mass, subsequently and systematically devastated by the barbarism based on the ribald crusading song, "L'Homme Arrne," is of John Knox and his Calvinist zealots. Scotland has been the only British mass to use this tune. Being Scottish, Carver

EIR July 31, 1992 Music 51 had better access to continental developments than his En­ glish contemporaries, whose monarchs were continually at war with the French. Church music debate The Union of the Crowns The next body-blow to Scotland's music was the Union of the Crowns and the disappearance of the Scottish court hides deeper issues and all its musicians to London. The traumatic repercussions of this event have universal significancein Scottish life, and by Nora Hamerman are only now being put to rights. In music, the· result was the spread of a fatalism and the self-destructive belief that Scotland's barren musical landscape was somehow endemic to the Scottish character and that we really were a nation WhyCathoDes Can't Slug: TheCulture of CathoDcism andthe Triumph of Bad Taste without music in our souls. by Thomas Day The historical and political consequences of this event Crossroad, New York, 1991; have meant that Scotland became peripheral to the develop­ 177 pages, hardbound. $19.95 ment of European classical music throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. John Purser's book is, however, a history of the traditional music as well as the classical music of Scotland, and these "lost" centuries were indeed a golden The name of Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee time for Gaelic music and for the repertoire of the pipes, came back into the public limelight again in mid-July, when fiddle, harp, and voice-in fact, that huge wealth of music the notorious Benedictine abbot was quoted in the Washing­ which most successfully captures the true essence of Scot­ ton Post criticizing a recent Vatican intervention into the land's cultural character. American Catholic Church. The issue was a letter to the When the book reaches the 19th century, I find Purser's American bishops, which stated that pastors should actively advocacy of Scottish composers less discerning. His outrage oppose legislative initiatives which attribute civil rights pro­ at the neglect of figures such as MacKenzie, MacCunn, and tections to homosexuality, and upheld the right of society to Wallace is understandable, considering how little they are restrictt he right of homosexuals to be teachers, scout leaders, performed in their own country . However, the honest musi­ and serve in the military forces .. cian in Purser is irrepressible, and if one delves into the text, Once again, Weakland made himself the spokesman for one can discover Purser's trueopinio ns. Alexander MacKen­ the "gay rights" lobby in rejectling an explicit intervention zie, admired by Liszt and friend of Grieg and Paderewski, from Rome. It is hardly surprising; the archbishop has long is first described as "one of the most important . . . and been the rallying-point for those who choose to cavil with inexcusably neglected British composers of his age." But the pope's defense of the sanctity of marriage and of human later we read that "his was not a searching style ...he not life, including adding "qualifiel"$" to undermine the absolute only enjoyed being partof the Establishment [in London] but prohibition on abortion, the munder of the unborn. One anti­ saw it as his business to perpetuate it." Enough said! Weakland group of Catholics ¢laims to have assembled a dossier proving that his Milwaukee archdiocese is a hotbed Scottish music today of homosexual child abuse and bther perversions, and even His final chapter on Scottish contemporary music is a went so far as to link such corrtlption to the sickening case brieftaster and a starting point for the research of others, but of Jeffrey Dahmer, the "gay" mass murderer who rampaged it does raise some important unspoken questions. Is the new in an apparent atmosphere of societal and police negligence Scotland to be an enlightened, civilized place where music in Milwaukee. takes a more central cultural role than before? If so, we need But there is another angle. Weakland is thepivotal figure to nurture a young, educated, and unprejudiced audience to in the so-called liturgical refomt which has been going on in replace the middle-aged conservatives whose very presence the U.S. Catholic Church sinde the late 1960s, a refonn in the concert halls stifles the innovation and boldness re­ which has resulted in what are dalled "folk masses" in most quired to continue the tradition. parishes, for which the widely used "revolutionary" hymnal In a few decades' time thesepeople will have died out, and is Glory and Praise. The composer of the title song, "Glory classical musiccould beleft without an audience. Thenecessary and Praise," Dan Schutte, S.J.,. a defrocked, former priest, activism to counteract this disaster is already under way. It is is reported by one conservative Catholic newspaper to be an activism which should take great pride in our musicalheri­ an activist in "Dignity," the curiously named homosexual­ tage· andwhich has received a tremendous shot in the arm from lesbian lobby against the churdh' s teaching on sexual mo­ John Purser'sscholarship and this inspiring book. rality.

52 Music EIR July 31, 1992 The results of Archbishop Weakland's innovations in sism." Among them, some churchg�rs may recognize "All church music arethe subject of this recent volume by Thomas That I Am," (wherein the word I appears 15 times on two Day, which has become popular with some traditionalists small printed pages), "Make Me a �hannel of Your Peace;" because it attacks the imposition of a liturgical music which, which turns St. Francis's very private prayer into "an obnox­ as Day says, resembles the theme song from "Gone with the ious form of boasting"; "We Are �e Light of the World," Wind" or the waltz played over loudspeakers at an ice skating "On Eagle's Winas," and"Be Not Aifraid." Day says that the rink. The book is hilarious and to a degree, informative, but music seems to say, "Have a nice �y, God."Sometimes it it ultimately misses the point. sounds like the "sound track of a tl¢ee-hanky romantic film . starring Greta Garbo or Bette Davis." 'Communal sensitivity' Moreover, it cannot be sung! ex�ept by the "folk group" As Day recounts, the revolution . was spearheaded by leading the liturgy or by the canto�, "Mr. Caruso," wbose Bishop Weakland, who wrote an influential article in 1967, throbbing vlOice is pluggedinto a gi�t amplification system which is quoted by almost all the musical Modernists, at­ blasting out feedback. tacking the whole tradition of old liturgical music as irrele­ Day's best insight is that some �anifestations of the new vant, and incomprehensible to "the people." Weakland, liturgical music pose a problem thllt goes far beyond bad among others, was selling the bill of goods according to taste. This occurs where the "comwser sets the text so that which Vatican Council II (1962-65) directed the faithful to the congregation sings God's wordSj, usually without quota­ win souls by descending to the level of popular culture. As tion marks , in a somewhat bored, relaxed, almost casual quoted by Day, Weakland pronounced in that article: style. This is startling and unpreceUented in the history of "If . . . the liturgical experience is to be primarily the Christianity." Thus, be underlines: ;'Through the miracle of communal sensitivity that I am one with my brother next to 'contemporary' music, the clOngregaplOn (andeach individual me and that our song is our common 20th-century response in it) becomes the Voice of God." In some songs, the congre­ to God's word here and now and coming to us in our 2Oth­ gation is the loving God and the ICl)Ved individual! God is century situation, it will be something quite different. We turned into "the endearing mascot of the believers at the. will not expect to find the holy in music by archaism, but in folk liturgy." Needless to say, this 'f/ipes out the distinction our own 20th-century idiom." between God and man, anddisslOlve!! Christ into a pantheistic Day notices about this: mush. , "At the rhetorical climax of the article we do not find The 1984 edition of thehymnal Gloryand Praise. except words like 'Christ' or 'worship' or 'sacrifice' or 'thanksgiv­ for "Amazing Grace" and a few Christmas carols, does not· ing for redemption.' Instead, the highpoint is the expression include a single hymn, piece of church music, or liturgical 'communal sensitivity. ' The liturgy becomesthe community response written before 1970. That is because, as Day �s­ sensing itself .... Some readers may have come to a serts, the meremomentary intrusion,of an old-fashioned Ky­ screechinghalt at the archbishop's use of the words 'our own rie Eleison or standard bymn, will e�pose the pieces in Glory 20th century idiom' of music. Exactly what does this mean? and praise as adolescent trash. Rock? Jazz? Stravinsky? Lawrence Welk? Messiaen? Coun­ try and Western? Rap? The author does not say. He gives no Only one solution examples." Yet hlOwodd that Mr. Day aVlOid!! clOnnectingWeakland 's. Since 1967, of course, all of those forms of the 2Oth­ liturgical "reforms" and his liberal sc;xual platform, just as he century "idiom" have invaded the churches. And they arenot avoids promoting the alternativeto bpth ills, which requires a so distinct from one another as Day implies. For instance: vigorous, jlOyful, and uncompromisjng revival of the music The depressing, atonal meandering of the modem "serious" composed for the Catholic liturgy by the giants of western liturgical compositions which dominate the repertoire of the music: frlOm LeonardlO da Vinci's cqntemporary Josquin des professional choir and organists at the National Shrine of Prez; to Palestrina and Byrd in the litterRenaissance; to Vi-. the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., sets the valdi and Scarlatti in the era IOf the: Baroque; to Haydn and . conceptual framework for the maudlin ditties of the "folk Mozart at the time of the American Revolution; tQ Schubert mass," exactly as traditional hymnody both inspired, and and Beethoven in the last century, �d including the many echoed, the sublimely ordered compositions of the Classical fine, less-knQwn composers who worked in the respective composers. orbits of these tlOwering figures. �lOt to mentilOn the great "Protestants" Bach and Handel, whOlSe universal music could 'Ego renewal' not be excluded from Christian worship withQut leaving a The infantile emotional state manifests itself on the parish terrible void. level in the form Thomas Day describes in a chapter entitled Of course the sung masses of these great musicians may "Ego Renewal." He lists a series of current favorites in the still be perflOrmed in the concert hall, and should be; but to "folk mass" repertoire which "ooze with indecent narcis- fail to perform them also as they wpre intended, within the

EIR July 31, 1992 Music 53 liturgy of the church, is a cultural crime which can only be emulated. Yet Thomas Day chqoses to not mention it. Nor compared to stripping the beautiful old churches of the world does his book include a single r¢ference to the great Roman of all their religious art and hanging it in museums. Or turning Catholic prelate who has intervehed on the profoundest level these beautiful churches into museums and sending the faith­ into the issues of liturgical music !fornearly 25 years: Cardinal ful to worship in a structure that looks like a cross between a Ratzinger. drive-in movie theater and a parking-ramp. It was on Nov. 17, 1985, Ithat Joseph Ratzinger, the Here, the link between the sexual agenda of the Rembert Prefect of the Congregation fOlt the Doctrine of the Faith, Weakland crowd and their cultural agenda becomes devastat­ German-born but now living in tome, delivered a landmark ingly relevant, not a mere matter of clever gossip. Christiani­ address on "Liturgy and Church Music" to an audience in ty distinguishes two opposite kinds of love: eros, the selfish Sicily. He emphatically restored! the value of the poeticprin­ love which seeks to possess a desired individual; and agape, ciple in liturgy, against an over-�mphasis on literal intelligi­ God's love for mankind, in which human beings may strive bility of the text, which goes aU the way back to the 16th to participate. In between, theologians speak of philia, a third century in church debates. Thus he gave the conceptual basis Greek word, brotherly love toward mankind as a whole, for making Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven's masses the moving in the direction of the divine. On this ladder of love, touchstone of a true reform of! liturgical music. Not long the pursuit of eros leads to hell and that of agape toward after, Beethoven's Missa Solemttis was sung at the Vatican. heaven. Great music, such as the sublime masses of Mozart, In that speech-reprinted in Fxtended excerpts in EIR of Haydn, and Beethoven, is essentially agapic in character; April 11, 1986 after it had appelked in OsservatoreRomano the "ego renewal" music which has washed over the churches in March 1986--Cardinal Ratzirlgerstated that ''word'' in the is pure eroticism. There is no Aristotelian "golden mean" of Biblical sense is more than "teit." It is "a living reality: a the sort Thomas Day seems to seek, where one can be "anti­ God who is meaning communiclhing itself and who commu­ eros" but not "pro-agape." nicates himself by becoming Dian." He added, "Liturgical The author defends himself against the charge of cyni­ music is a result of the demands! and of the dynamism of the cism, remarking, "True cynicism is to be found among those Incarnation of the Word, for m"sic means that even among who have taken a religious act (or interaction between God us, the word cannot be mere s,eech." He denounced rock and humanity) and turned it into group therapy; the music music (in which, as everyone khows, every single word of always seems to be assuring everybody that the good news the text is fully enunciated and dear) as "Dionysiac," i.e., of the New Testament goes something like this: 'I'm okay, satanic. you're okay, God's okay'-in that order." Thomas Day's book was cop�ghted in 199O---fiveyears True; and yet, Day is cynical. On the dust jacket, we can after that intervention. Nowhere, even in the concluding read approving comments of his book by two of the biggest chapter where he offers practical advice, does he cite cynics in American Catholicism-William F. Buckley, the Cardinal Ratzinger. Can this be!ignorance? Or does the au­ right-wing Anglophile liberal, and Andrew Greeley, the left­ thor believe that the Roman eX$nple is somehow irrelevant ! wing Anglophile liberal. Why? to the American experience? Aftercomplaining about the inescapable presence of rock music in daily life, Day writes in a footnote, "I should confess that I like rock, but I despise it whenever it becomes totalitari­ an." To "like" rock music in any context is to admit that one has been bestialized; comprehensible in our media-brain­ washed youth, but hardly excusable in a Thomas Day, who is, after all, chairman of the music department at Salve Regi­ na College in Rhode Island. Rock music is always totalitari­ an. Essentially erotic, it embodies the worst tyranny of all­ the spirit's enslavement by animal appetites.

The blackout of Cardinal Ratzinger In the summer of 1985, Pope John Paul II sponsored the performance of Mozart's Mass in C ("Coronation") at St. Peter's Basilica, not merely as a concert, but as the music of the liturgy. This event is well known, even in the American church. In some parishes-such as one near Washington D.C. which recently used Haydn's "Timpani Mass," per­ formed by its own choir, professional soloists, and a small orchestra, as the music for its Pentecost liturgy-it has been

54 Music EIR July 31, 1992 Music Views andReviews by Kathy Wo lfe

The great voices of the brains." Amelita Galli-Curci (1882- tine Schumann-Heink (NI 7811) is early 20th century 1963) was the high soprano so justifi­ also a phenomenon worth hearing, ably famous in the 1920s for her ele­ just to know how Iow a woman's voice Nimbus Records "Prima Voce" vated tone, which sustained a very can go and remain elevated. N1 7832 , Maria Ivogiin; N1 7836, long musical line. Nimbus's "Amelita Conchita Supervia; Nl 7813, Tito Galli-Curci" (NI 7806) is also lovely, Schipa; Nl 7815, Giuseppe de Luca; as is NI 7802, "Divas, Volume 1," Tenor and baritone List price $10.99 each with Luisa Tetrazzini, Galli-Curci, Caruso is wonderful, but for musical and more. ("Elevation" is the Italian artistry even better is tenor Tito Schi­ Nimbus Record's "Prima Voce" se­ practice of "singing in the mask," i.e., pa (1889-1965), It is not just that Schi­ ries is re-issuing the recordings of the in the head sinuses, the area covered pa had the grandfather of all vibrati, great singers of the early 20th century . by the Greek drama mask, which of which Jussi Bjorling would have Musical selections range from won­ makes older recordings sound slightly been proud. What is striking is that derful Italian arias to Wagner, but if "nasal" to the modem ear, which is although it is far more difficult for a you want to hear what was meant by accustomed to the inferior practice of tenor to soar a� effortlessly as a so­ "bel canto," listen to these discs. belting fromthe diaphragm.) prano does, there is precisely that While no recorded evidence has es­ Maria Ivogun not only sang with graceful freedopI of the soul in every caped the ravages to classical singing as much elevation as did Galli-Curci, aria. caused by the post- 1860 rise in pitch, who called Ivogiinher main competi­ Verdi's "Rigoletto" tenor arias these are among the best available. tor, but where Galli-Curci begins to and the beautiful "Quando Ie sere al In September, Nimbus will re­ sound the same after a while, Ivogiin placido" from Verdi's "Luisa Miller" lease 10 Prima Voce artists on audio never does. She sang not only opera, are perfect, as are five favorite, but cassette, including Enrico Caruso, but German Lieder with supreme in­ difficult, Doni1ietti arias from "Lucia Jussi Bjorling, and Rosa Ponselle. telligence. Her singing is happy proof di Lamermoor" and other operas. Among the re-issues appearing, that Italian "bel canto" was held to be Normally one expects to cringe occa­ Nimbus's sound is particularlywarm, an international scientificprinciple by sionally hearing these, but with Schi­ because of a unique recording tech­ the best German singers. pa they just flqw out with long line. nique. Instead of cold electronic trans­ Tribute to Ivogiin is the fame of Most astonishipg is the ease with fers, Nimbus plays old 78s on an origi­ her student Elisabeth Schwartzkopf. which he tossell off the almost impos­ nal grammophone in the superb Ivogiin was a genius as a teacher, sible Count's serenade from Rossini's acoustics of a ballroom in an 18th­ training a generation of German sing­ "Barber of Seville." century Welsh castle, simulating a ers in the 1930-40s. Ivogiinhelped her Baritone Giuseppe de Luca (1876- live performance. husband, pianist Michael Raucheisen 1950) was an6ther such intelligent Rather than just buying Caruso be­ (1889-1984), achieve his "Lied der singer. As Nimbus's excellent liner cause he's famous, better hear a quar­ Welt" project, in which he recorded booklet notes, ihe didn't have a big tet of voice types: soprano, mezzoso­ the complete Lieder of Beethoven, voice, but "COnipensatedby mastering prano, tenor, and baritone or bass. As Brahms, and dozens of other compos­ the tecnicalities of his art in a manner the Schiller Institute's forthcoming ers for posterity during World War II. that has rarelyi been surpassed." No Manual on Tuning and Registration Spanish mezzosoprano Conchita shouting and

EIR July 31, 1992 Music 55 �ITillNational

DOJ: 'Hang DemjanjUk even if he's innocent"

by Jeffrey Steinberg

The U.S. Department of Justice has once again been caught citizenship and extradite him to IIsrael. in bed with the dope lobby's Anti-Defamation League The Sixth Circuit took the extraordinary step of reopening (ADL). This time, the DOJ has filed a viciously worded the case on June 3, after senior D¢>Jofficia ls, led by Assistant attack against the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Attorney General John Mueller III, stonewalled for six Cincinnati, Ohio for daring to intercede in the department's months in answering the court's simple requests for a status Office of Special Investigations' (OSI) judicial lynching of report on the DOJ's internal pro� of the case. John Demjanjuk. On June 5, the court issued an order which stated in part Between 1986-88, Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-bornnatural­ that the DOJ "on or before July l5, 1992, shall file with the ized American, was strippedof his U.S. citizenship, extradit­ court a brief describing any itemS of evidence of any kind of ed to Israel, tried, and convicted on fraudulent charges that which it has knowledge, tending to show that the petitioner­ he was the World War II Treblinka concentration camp guard appellant, Demjanjuk, is not tile 'Ivan the Terrible' who known as "Ivan the Terrible." committed war crimes at the T�blinka death camp . . . to­ One critical piece of evidence used in the frameup of gether with a statement of appro�imately when agents of the Demjanjuk was a forged World War II identification card United States firstlearned of each such item of evidence." that was provided to the OSI by the Soviet KGB . Department The Justice Department document submitted to the court of Justice (DOJ) attorneys relied heavily on the KGB-manu­ on July 15 is a telling indictmen� of the Nazi-like doctrine of factured document in pressing their case for Demjanjuk's law practiced by the Bush administration, in league with denaturalization and eventual extraditionto Israel, a country outfits like the ADL, which has played a prominent role in he had never even visited. Collusion with the KGB and pri­ every facet of the Demjanjuk franteup. vate agencies, like the staunchly Zionist organized crime­ The basic thrust of the DOJ I response was that the court linked ADL, has been a hallmark of the OSI since its estab­ had no business interfering in the case since Demjanjuk had lishment by an act of Congress in 1979. been strippedof his U.S. citizenship back in 1986 and, there­ In 1988, an Israeli court sentenced John Demjanjuk to fore , he had no standing before an American court: "Because death by hanging. He has been sitting in an Israeli maximum Demjanjuk is in Israeli custody and is no longer a United security prison ever since. In early June, Demjanjuk's Israeli States citizen, it is the governm�nt's position that this court attorney completed his appeal argument before the Israeli lacks jurisdiction to reconsider �e validity of the extradition Supreme Court warrant, to reopen the extradition proceedings, or to enforce Also in June, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reopened the rule of specialty. " the Demjanjuk case on the grounds that massive amounts of The argument that Demjanjuk was technically ineligible new evidence had been uncovered by Demjanjuk's attorneys for a day in court regardless oflthe substantive evidence of and family showing that the DOJ had withheld critical docu­ his innocence, is Nazi law. The idea that technicalities take ments proving Demjanjuk's innocence. Some of those docu­ precedence over the truth has become a battlecry of prosecu­ ments were in the DOJ's files since 1978, i.e., before the tors in the United States. Virginia State Attorney General OSI moved to strip the retired Cleveland auto worker of his Mary Sue Terry used the same argument to insist that Roger

56 National EIR July 31, 1992 Keith Coleman be executed for a murder that he may not persecution of Jews while serving as a concentration camp have committed, because his attorneys were one day late in guard during World War II. There is also little doubt that he filing a notice of appeal . Coleman died in the electric chair lied about his wartime activities when he entered the United in May. States and that evidence of his deceptionwarranted his denat­ For good measure, the DOJ added that even if the court uralization and deportation. . . . Therefore, under no circum­ rejected its argument thatit had no business interfering in the stances should he be allowed to return to Cleveland. " case on the basis of the "procedural" logic stated above, the On the same day of Welles's letter, OSI officials deliv­ court should not reverse its decision, since the OSI only ered the same warning in a feature story in the New York had to show probable cause to ship Demjanjuk off to Israel Times. strippedof his citizenship. Neal Sher, the currentdirector pf the OSI, arrogantlytold Nowhere in the 63-page legal brief or the 700-plus pages New York Times reporter TamarLe win: "There's never been of appended documents did the DOJ provide the court with a case in which we had the wrong person, Demjanjuk in- the exculpatory evidence it was ordered to produce. cluded." . Eli Rosenbaum, a long-time ADL ally and the current Hard-line defense vice director of the OSI, sounded more like a Nazi than a The Demjanjuk defense was to present a brief before the Nazi-hunter when he told the New York Times: "Our biggest court on July 25, itemizing the documentation in its posses­ accomplishment is probably changing the perception in what sion thatproves that Demjanjuk was not the Treblinka guard we might call the community of Nazi criminals who have known as "Ivan the Terrible." Affidavits by 21 Treblinka found refuge here . A decade agd, to a man, they thought guards given at the close of World War II identified another they had gotten away with it, and were looking forward to a man, Ivan Marchenko, as the mass murderer at Treblinka. peacefulretirement. That's not true now. They all live in fear One of the key witnesses at the Demjanjuk show trial in of receiving word from our office that we are on to them. Israel, Treblinka survivor Elijahu Rosenberg, had signed a They fear the knock on the door. " sworn affidavit in the late 1940s, identifying Marchenko as But Elan Steinberg, the executive director of Edgar "Ivan" and claiming that he and another inmate had killed Bronfman's World Jewish Congress, betrayed the fear now Marchenko before the liberation of the camp. Rosenberg beginning to surface in ADL ranks that the Demjanjuk case recanted that testimony 40 years later and helped secure the could expose the criminal misconduct of the Department of frameup convictionof Demjanjuk. The DOJ brief to the Sixth Justice and the Zionist lobby. He told Lewin: "Anybody who Circuit, while citing Rosenberg as one of the OS!' s prime has said Demjanjuk should be released at this point is being witnesses, failed to even mention the postwar affidavit, even reckless and irresponsible. We are talking about someone though it was exculpatory. that both documentation and eYelWitnesses placed at death camps, places where Jews were taken solely to be killed. DOJ brief echoes ADL line There has been a widespread campaign to put a stop to the On July 6, Elliot Welles, the director of the ADL Task prosecution of Nazis by the nuts who say there was no Holo­ Force on Nazi War Criminals, in a letter to the editor of the caust and by the emigre groups. A central concern of mine Washington Post, demanded that the appeals court refrain is that some individuals are seizing on this case to try to shut from even reconsidering Demjanjuk's extradition. Welles, down the OS I. " who formerly ran the ADL office in Israel, is the ADL's Indeed, Steinberg has good reason to fear that the OS!' s liaison to the OSI. The ADL has been a pivotal ally of the days may be numbered. Already, two members of Congress, OSI attorneys, often providing the Justice Department with Reps . James Traficant (D-Ohio) and Mary Rose Oakar (D­ "witnesses" and even occasionally with so-called docu­ Ohio) , have called for the House Judiciary Committee to ments. The ADL also played an important role in building the open a full investigation of the 0$1. Traficant has called for links between the OSI and Soviet bloc secret police agencies. Neal Sher and former OSI directot Alan Ryan to be jailed for Top ADL officialEdgar Bronfman, an heir to the Prohibition­ their criminal conduct in the frameup of Demjanjuk. And era gangster fortune, was an important contact point to the sources close to the Demjanjuk defense team say that there now defunct communist regime in East Germany. It was East aremany prominent attorneys preparing to file amicus curiae Germany's Stasi (state security service) which surfaced the briefs against the government with the Sixth Circuit. Even original list of "Nazi war criminals" who have been targeted New Republic magazine, a bulkwark of Zionist lobby politi­ by the OSI since the 1970s. cal influence, recently featured a prominent advertisement The ADL has a big stake in defending the OSI. That for a new Harvard University PreIss book, Identifying Ivan, vested interest was evident in Welles's letter to the Washing­ which tears apart the government's evidence against Dem­ ton Post. Ignoring the new evidence presented before the janjuk. Israeli Supreme Court, Welles ranted: On Aug. II, the Sixth Circuit will hear oral arguments "Regardless of the final outcome of the Demjanjuk case, on whether to grant a habeas corpus motion to reverse John there is little doubt [sic] that John Demjanjuk engaged in the Demjanjuk's extradition.

EIR July 31, 1992 National 57 'Never fear, I shallneve r give up,' states Lyndon LaRouche

U.S. statesman and economist Lyndon H. LaRouche. Jr. farrepr esent. made the fo llowing remarks on July 20 in anticipation of a There is another aspect of 'fhich the public is insuffi­ fo rthcoming announcement of an independent campaign fo r ciently aware, which more mus� look at before they really President of the United States. He made his remarks from try to understand these fellows. That is the Democratic Lead­ Rochester. Minnesota. where he has been imprisoned on ership Council, the group that initially sponsored Clinton's trumped-up charges since Jan. 27. 1989 . nomination from within the pat1ty, and look at the fascist program, including transactional sacrifice policies-social On two forthcoming institutional occasions in the near future, contract policies-which is the policy of the Clinton cam­ I shall make more definitive and comprehensive statements paign. This is the worst possible thing that could happento concerning my independent candidacy for the November the United States! 1992 elections. However, at this time there are a number of In speaking of Bush versus Clinton-Gore, we're not observations which cannot wait, I think; people are looking speaking about a choice of whatever one might perceive to for some answers. be the lesser evil. We are spealdng about the worst evil. First of all, two things are obvious. George Bush is still There is actually no lesser evil; if you vote for a lesser evil the disaster he was up to this point. He has not improved and win, you get evil. And in th�s case, it's clearly a choice lately. I would not be surprised if he were to resign for health of worse evils, not lesser evils. reasons, but knowing George's health a little bit, I wouldn't There is nothing else on the horizon at present, except be surprised if he refused to resign and just stubbornlyclung my candidacy. As to whether I c�n win or not, even withthe to the position, at least for a while, despite the fact that what greatest good luck, of course, I � not going to argueon that is obvious about his health condition, even at a distance point. The question is what will !my candidacy do to tilt the observing him in his few public appearances, the man is sick. situation. On the other side, it is not at all unfair to describe the Clinton-Gore ticket as a pair of Southern fried fascists who Industrial recovery polic)1 needed are focusing on the worst element in society and putting Bush has shown no sign of tJ"iinking about an industrial people who might be individually salvageable, but who as a program. Ross Perot talked abol1t one, but he didn't know group are fairly described as guppies (that is, greedy yup­ what an industrial policyis . He is a good salesman, I under­ pies), that all other significant constituencies in society are stand, but from what he said publicly, he has not the slightest being essentially ignored by this ticket. conception of what a true industrial policy is, how to make industry work. That he doesn't Qnderstand. He understands Clinton-Gore an anti-industrial ticket how, as a supersalesman, to hire people and get them to do One's alarm on this concernis increased in several ways. the job. But what it takes to do $e job, he himself does not First of all, that the Clinton-Gore ticket is an anti-industrial understand, at least clearly so, from the things he has said ticket; it's a post-industrial society ticket in the extreme, and not said thus far. which is the worst possible thing in termsof policy that could Therefore, the leading feature of my campaign, in terms happen to the United States at this time. The attempt to of policy, will be to present a genuine industrial recovery implement the kind of policy that Clinton-Gore represent policy. could only become a fascist state in the full or medium term. This is going to be a period of the worst depressioncrisis The appeal to the guppies, that is, the greedy yuppies of in the 20th century. It has begunrin the immediate aftermath suburbia, gives the sociological basis for fascism matching of the Democratic convention-tthat's not particularly sur­ the fascism of the kind of policy which Clinton and Gore so prising. It is going to become th� primary concern of voters

58 National EIR July 31, 1992 and citizens generally, not only in the United States, but around the world. Therefore, I shall present a genuine, work­ able industrial policy, a recovery program along the lines I indicated in the nomination campaign, but with somewhat World leaders to U. S. : more detail as is required at this point. So, as people's concerns tum to recovery, those who are Revoke deathpenalty ! sane will be looking for an industrial recovery policy; those who are not sane will obviously be looking for something by Marianna We rtz else. But those who are sane, will be concerned primarily with an economic industrial recovery program for the United States, and there's no sense talking to the rest of them, they're The recent Democratic Party convention battle over the issue just not in the real world. of the death penalty was joined, in apunprecedented manner, With the hope that by presenting a policy and securing a by dozens of political and religiou� leaders from Europe and base, at least in some major states, for support for this policy, Ibero-America. These leaders, whq oppose the use of capital and significant voter turnout for my candidacy and my punishment in their own nations, viewed this fight as a good friends, we will leverage this policy onto the national stage, opportunity to stop its use in the United States, one of the where as the crisis deepens, this policy will be forced upon few so-called civilized nations in the world that still employs whoever were elected in November. this barbaric practice. The convention fight was speapteaded by supporters of World War III is in progress political prisoner Lyndon H. LaRouQhe, thejailed candidate for That's the general nature of things. The world is a disaster the Democratic presidential nomination who is now expected to now. We actuallyhave WorldWar ill in progress.Most Ameri­ campaign for the presidency as an independent.More than 300 cans are so concerned about things at home and believeso many Democratic convention delegates signed a petition calling for legends and myths that they read from their newspapers or the party to reject the death penalty !(see EIR , July 24, p. 56). receive from television, that they don't know what's going on Though the Democratic National C�mmittee, under candidate in the world in general. But I can assure you that from the Bill Clinton's control, squashed it (and every other minority Balkans through Southeast Asia, and into South America and plank), the issue had already drawn significant outside support, into Africa, World War III is presently in progress. which will continue to build, particularly ifAmerica continues We have the Balkan wars, we have the Transcaucasus its current descent into barbarism. , wars, we have the imminent outbreak of wars in various In the weeks leading up to the convention, as the parts of Asia; we have disintegration occurring in Africa­ LaRouche campaign was calling on, Americans to take a stand all parts, both Northern Arabic-speaking Africa and sub­ against the death penalty, dozen� of leaders from abroad Saharan Africa. Absolute hell. We have ungovernability de­ responded to a similar call by the qommission to Investigate veloping in Central and South America as a result of these Human Rights Violations in Europe, and by the Movement nations' submission to International Monetary Fund and re­ for Ibero-American Solidarity. • lated programs. The world is falling apart; and we Ameri­ Former prime ministers of Argentina and of Italy lead the cans, who no longer produce enough to meet our own needs list of elected officials, religious leaders, and legal scholars but survive on the margin of what we're able to extract by who added their names to the resolution. various kinds of blackmail from other nations, are going to Many of the European signers pre members of the Euro­ find ourselves without the means to continue to extract from pean Parliament, which on June 11 passed its own resolution nations that don't have anything to give. condemning capital punishment in the United States and call­ I'm aware of this. I understand this. I think the White ing for its abolition here and evqrywhere else around the House does not understand it presently; and certainly the world. The European Parliament's statement "calls upon the Clinton-Gore ticket doesn't understand it at all. I shall try to legislative bodies, the governors, lUldthe appeals authorities make that clear to Americans who are prepared to listen, and of the various U.S. states, as well as the President and the be concerned about what's happened to the world at large, Congress of the United States of America, to prevent execu­ with World War III actually in progress, and I shall say a tions from being carried out. " great deal about it. In Ibero-America, dozens of Mexican parliamentarians, So never fear, I'm there. I'm fighting. Unlike Perot, I from the ruling PRI party to the socialists, have signed the shall never give up; I'm fighting for this nation. There seems resolution. A senator and three respected journalists have to be nobody else with a glimmer of understanding of what's signed from Colombia. In Venezu�la, the head of the Human needed. I shall stand. I shall present what is needed-and I Rights Commission of the Chamber of Representatives has shall fight to the end. I shall never give up. On that you may endorsed it, as well as 1 0 member� of the Chamber of Depu­ depend. ties (the equivalent of the U.S. Congress).

EIR July 31, 1992 National 59 Prominent among the many endorsers are the following individuals (titles for identification only): Democratic Convention Notes

Argentina Dr. Arturo Frondizi, former President of Argentina

Colombia In New Yo rk City, Msgr. Carlos Sanchez, Episcopal Vicar of the Sacred Host of the Archdiocese of Bogota Dr. Jorge Mario Eastman, president of the Andean finish demolition Parliament by We bster Tarpley Jorge Carrillo, former labor minister, former president CUT (national labor federation) Sen. Hernan Mota Mota (UP) Dr. Josef Goebbels, who was Hitler's propaganda minister, staged the famous Nazi Party rallies in the stadium at Nurem­ Mexico berg without the benefitof television. This year's Democratic Congressman Ricardo Valero, former deputy foreign National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York minister, member of the Chamber of Deputies (PRD) City was conducted as a Nuremberg party rally before the Dr. Alfredo Jalife, secretary, World Maronite Catholic cameras, staged as pure politics-for-television by party boss Union (Reformed) Ron Brown and his henchmen. Carville and Stephanopoulos, the two resident image-mongers of the Clinton campaign, Venezuela having studied the fabled photCil opportunities of Michael Congressman Rafael Guerra Ramos, chairman, Hu­ Deaver and the Reagan regime, aweed with Democratic Par­ man Rights Committee, Chamber of Deputies (MAS) ty chairman Ron Brown that it would be better to suppress Fr. Jesus Maria Olazo, director of Human Rights, Of­ any residual political debate in favor of a homogenized media fice of the Attorney General spectacle designed to "project" the Clinton-Gore tandem. This media strategy mirrored the Clinton-Gore intent of Members of the European Parliament completing the demolition of the Democratic Party into a The Hon. Emilio Colombo, Italy, former prime minister pale shadow of the Republicans, with full support for the Gulf of Italy (DC) war aggression , the North American Free Trade Agreement The Hon. Roberto Barzanti, Italy, vice president of the (NAFTA), stealing everyone'sI Social Security, right-to­ European Parliament (PDS) work union busting, sly racist appeals, and the death penalty. The Hon. Claude Cheysson, France , former foreign Two Confederate yuppies on the ticket meant that, as old minister (PS) Jimmy Carter explained, the onJly geography that mattered The Hon. Carlos Maria Bru-Puron, Spain, president to Clinton-Gore was suburbia, slince that was where people of the Spanish Council of the European Movement; vice still bothered to vote . To assure ratification of the Clinton­ president of the European Parliament's Committee on Institu­ Gore line, the party's traditional black constituency was mor­ tional Affairs (PSOE) tified, through a series of ritual humiliations administered to The Hon. Gerard Caudron, France, mayor ofVilleneu­ Jesse Jackson, while the remaililing labor forces were dra­ ve d'Ascq (PS) gooned by their AFL-CIA gOOD controllers . The resulting The Hon. Peter Crampton, Great Britain, vice presi­ neo-Nuremberg choreography offered up Southernfried fas­ dent of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commit­ cism, which Clinton and Gore h0ped would be more appeal­ tee (LP) ing than Bush's stodgy administrative variety. If Clinton and Gore got elected, they might succeed in reconvening Other Europeans something calling itself "Democratic Party" four years Prof. Dr. Hans-Richard Klecatsky, Austria, former hence, but only as a lifeless a,tomaton of big bucks and minister of justice patronage; if Clinton and Gore went down to defeat, then the Prof. Dr. Friedrich August von der Heydte, Germany, Democratic Party , already moribund, was a dead duck, with international law expert perspectives of regionalism and neo-secessionism lurking

Msgr. Andrea Gemma, Italy, Bishop of Isernia around the comer. Bishop Searby Booth-Clibborn, England, Anglican bishop of Manchester Fight against the death penalty Reinhold Adebahr, Germany, Lutheran superintendent The one issue on which the Southern fried fascist crowd in Sondershausen was challenged was that of the death penalty. After initial

60 National EIR July 31, 1992 45 minutes. During that time a Jerry Brown campaign official told the delegates that since Ron Brns. left-wing Democratic circles. Fitrakis had been embroiled in What about the superdelegates, a Brown supporter want­ a controversy with Ohio Gov. George Voinovich because of ed to know. Then a young black woman demanded an answer Voinovich's attempt to re-impose the death sentence on sev­ on the death penalty. Why was Rob Brown suppressing the en persons whose lives had been spared through commutation minority plank? Was he in favor of executing a mentally by outgoing Gov. Richard Celeste. Fitrakis was a platform impaired black man, as Clinton wanted to execute Barry Lee delegate for the campaign of Jerry Brown, and is currently a Fairchild? Ron Brown had no answer; he shut down the candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Ohio's meeting and walked out. 12th district. Fitrakis had gathered sufficientsigntures to get the death Is the Democratic Party a p.-ivate club? penalty plank debated on the convention floor on the night On July 13 at noon, Fitrakis and his feisty lawyer from of July 14, but Ron Brown's apparatchiki had thrown out Queens, Nick Miglino, went into U.S. District Court in Foley some of the signatures, leaving Fitrakis and his friends one Square and obtained a show cause order from Judge Leonard signature short. The convention bosses, indeed, had never Sand, requiring the DNC to justify their behavior. Sand, a officially informed Fitrakis that they intended to junk his Republican who has been functioning as the virtual dictator plank. of Yonkers, New York, hastened to add that the show cause On the afternoon of July 13, Fitrakis held a press confer­ order was purely pro fo rma, and did not imply agreement ence to demand a full floordebate of the death penalty. This that there was a justiciable issue. Nevertheless, the show was at the old Statler-Hilton Hotel, now a Ramada, across cause order was sufficient to capture the attention of the the street from Madison Square Garden. The press confer­ arrogant yuppies staffing the Platform Committee, when it ence was a success, despite attempts by the hotel manager to was served on them by Miglino at the New York Hilton later push the press conference out onto the sidewalk of Seventh that afternoon. The DNC even attempted to orchestrate a Avenue. Upstairs in the same building, some of the re­ vulgar comedy of errors designed to keep Fitrakis and Migli­ maining anti-Clinton delegates were gathering in a meeting no waiting in midtown while DNC lawyers proceeded to keep room where Ron Brown had announced he would conde­ the 4 p.m. Foley Square court date severalmiles to the south. scend to encounter them. After Fitrakis had finished speak­ But Miglino and Fitrakis were at Foley Square at 4 p.m. ing , some of his audience, including some LaRouche sup­ Judge Sand was not pleased by their request for injunctive porters , driftedup to the "minority delegates" gathering. relief under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Ron Brown kept the anti-Clinton delegates waiting for Constitution to force the DNC to fpllow its own rules, and

EIR July 31, 1992 National 61 Left : Rev. James Bevel leads protest of the execution of Bill Clinton's next victim, Barry Lee Fairchild, at U'n7(U'rfllW

Ohio delegate Robert J. Fitrakis briefs the press 011July 13, on his political and legal fightto demand a resolution against the death penalty.

made grumbling reference to laches by Fitrakis and to possi­ laches, and in any case the balance of the equities inclined ble Rule 11 sanctions. He would have liked to throw the entire "overwhelmingly" in favor of the DNC. The request for in­ matter out then and there, but he felt obliged to schedule a junctive relief was therefore rejected. The DNC had its carte further hearing with briefs for the next day at 9 a.m. when, blanche to flout its own rules in any way it wanted, despite he assured, he would make short shrift of the matter. the fact that such party action was indeed state action. The court reconvened the next morning with the DNC Despite this ruling, and des ite the determination of the arguing that the party and its convention were a private asso­ media to pass over this issue, various minority delegates and ciation, despite the $11 million in taxpayers' money poured LaRouche activists had alread� succeeded in bringing the into the party coffers for the event by the Federal Election death penalty before the convention. On the afternoonof July Commission and the further untold millions of largesse from 13, delegates alighting from Jpecial city buses inside the New York taxpayers for police, security, traffic, and other security perimeter were urged to vote for the minority plank services. The DNC also wanted a full evidentiary hearing on by a group of LaRouche suppprters bearing signs reading the validity of the signatures. Miglino specifiedthat once the "You don't have to kill to be al Democrat" and positioned a plank had been printed and distributed, debate and a vote few yards away on the north side of 33rd Street. could be accomplished in about 20 minutes. But Judge Sand The Clinton camp, alerted to the challenge, dispatched a noted that the alleged platform debate had taken place the battalion of college kids with Clinton signs who tried to previous night, and paid tribute to the "finely tuned schedule" drown out such politics with thel rebel yell. Finally, the police of the convention, which brought "prime time television" declared the whole north side o� 33rd Street between Seventh into play. The judge was now much more conciliatory: Fi­ and Eighth A venues off limits to those without credentials, trakis had not acted improperly, but there was a question of but most of the delegates wer · inside before this could be

62 National EIR July 31, 1992 enforced. During the following day, placards reading simply: "Barry Lee Fairchild," Clinton's likely next victim, began turning up all around the convention. On the night of the 14th , the farce of the platform debate was sent across the ghastly electronic podium: four pro-aus­ terity planks fromPaul Tsongas, liquidated in little more than State court strikes half an hour by Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado, who learned his ethics at Yale. There was no mention of the death penalty 'hate crimes' law issue from the podium. But meanwhile, in the aisles of the convention and in the open space before the podium, a dem­ F. onstration against the death sanction was mounted by Mrs. by Leo Scanlon Sheila Jones of Chicago, a LaRouche supporter who had foiled all of Ron Brown's myrmidons and reached the con­ The Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) hate crimes statutes vention floor. For upwards of five hours, Mrs. Jones defied have been denounced as an "Orwellian" attack on the free the Nuremberg logic of the convention by ceaselessly speech protections of the First Amepdment, by a Wisconsin marching, ceaselessly demonstratingagainst the racist barba­ Supreme Court ruling. In its decision, issued June 23, one rism of the death penalty. At times she was alone, at times day after the U.S. Supreme Court struckdown a Minnesota she was joined by 20, 40, 100delegat es, some black, many hate crime statute, the Wisconsin ruling undercuts the legal not. Former Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, D.C. support for the "sentencing enhan�ment" provisions of the greeted her. The Vermont delegation hoisted an anti-death ADL-sponsored statutes which are now on the books in 48 penalty poster onto their standard. other states. The only element of the ADL program left un­ Since the television pool coverage was controlled by an challenged is the federal "Hate Crime Statistics Act," which NBC producer, virtually none of this reached even those should be scrutinized by Congress i, light of this ruling. hardy souls watching the continuous coverage on C-Span. The Wisconsin case, State o/ WiSconsin v. ToddMitchell, But even the casual viewer might have realized that some­ involved a black youth who led a gangwhich attacked a white thing unscripted was going on when Mrs. Jones's demonstra­ teenager, beat him unconscious, atijl stole his tennis shoes. tion reached two vociferous high points: One came during Ironically, the attack was precipitatQ

"George Bush told us that he was serious about the death an inflammatory and fraudulent propaganda piece produced penalty, but he has not delivered," growled Daley, obviously on behalf of the ADL by HollywQOd to support the hate hinting at an attack from the right. The NBC cameras, which crimes statutes. Todd Mitchell, one of the older members of normally showed the delegates applauding and cavorting the group, asked the others, "Do you all feel hyped up to aftereach line, wereglued to Daley, and dared not pan away. move on some white people?" Upon sighting the victim, But a dull roar was audible even through NBC's highly selec­ Mitchell urged, "You all want to f- somebody up? There tive directional microphones: In reality, a militant demon­ goes a white boy; go get him." stration against capital punishment was going on under Da­ The state charged and convicted Mitchell of aggravated ley's nose. Later, when congresswoman Nancy Pelosi battery, a felony which carried a m$Ximum sentence of two seemed about to suffer a nervous breakdown at several points . years. The jury found that Mitchell had selected his victim during her vapid remarks, it was because Mrs. Jones's forces because of his race, thereby being. guilty of committing a were once again vociferously protesting in her face. "hate crime" which increased the potential maximum sen­ But, in the end, the cat will mew and the dog will have tence from two to seven years. The circuit court and the his day: Clinton, Gore, and Ron Brown had their way, and appeals court denied Mitchell's I"eCjluest for relief, and the delivered the probable coup de grace to the agonizing Demo­ issue brought before the State Suprepte Court was the consti­ cratic Party. On July 15, Curtis Wilkie of the Boston Globe tutionality of the sentencing enhancement provisions them­ disclosed the inside strategy of the Confederate yuppie ge­ selves. niuses of the Clinton camp: Clinton's plan, including the Gore nomination, was predicated on a three-way race involv­ ADL schemes create thought crimes ing Ross Perot that would make Clinton competitive in the The Wisconsin law is based on the ADL model statute, South. With Perot, Clinton expected to have a 50-50 chance which provides for increased penalties for crimes already of winning, although that would drop to l-in-5 without Perot. punishable by law. Despite the fac� that in some cases the In private meetings, Clinton strategists stressed that "Clinton enhanced punishments can transform a misdemeanor (such needs a Perot candidacy that gets 15-16% of the vote in as simple battery) into a felony, the ADL claims the statutes November-not 3% or 30%," Rep. Dennis Eckart (D-Ohio) do not create new crimes, but merely. use a sentencing proce- was saying. But then, on July 16, Perot quit. dure to punish bigotry.

EIR July 31, 1992 National 63 Chief Justice Heffernan , writing for the majority, ripped this argument to ribbons. First of all, he said, "The hate Va tican Letter crimes statute violates the First Amendment directly by pun­ ishing what the legislature has deemed to be offensive thought and violates the First Amendment indirectly by chill­ ing free speech." He pointed out that "in any assault upon an individual there is a selection of the victim" and that is part of the underlying offense, the "intent" in committing the crime. The inherent problem with the hate crimes statutes is 'Homosexual rights' that they specifically target the "motive" or thought behind the selection, and do so in a subjective, and even political are not human rights fashion. The seemingly plausible defense of the statutes raised by In a statement sent to American Catholic Bishops in June, the ADL and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (the the Vatican opposed the moves iin the United States to make other main sponsor of these laws),.asserts that the statutes homosexuality a legally protecttd and socially accepted way are the same thing as the anti-discrimination features of civil of life. The Vatican letter, entitled "Some Considerations rights laws. The ADL, an openly racist organization, drapes Concerning the Catholic Response to Legislative Proposals these laws with the mantle of the civil rights movement. on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons," was Justice Heffernan correctly points out that "discrimina­ written in response to, among other things, laws like the tion and bigotry are not the same thing" and can't be treated District of Columbia's "domestic partners law," which legally as if they were. In anti-discrimination statutes, for would recognize homosexual marriages as equivalent to example, it is a discriminatory act which is prohibited. Addi­ heterosexual ones. Although tHe letter is still technically an tionally, he points out, "there is a differencebetween the civil internal church document, it was released to the public by penalties [of] anti-discrimination statutes and the criminal New Ways Ministry and was subsequently made available penalties imposed by the hate crimes law. . . . It is the objec­ to EIR. The full text of the letter fo llows. tive conduct taken in respect to the victim which is redressed (not punished) by those [anti-discrimination] statutes, not the Recently, legislation has been proposed in some American actor's motives." states which would make discrimination on the basis of Heffernan continues: "The hate crimes statute does not sexual orientation illegal. In some Italian cities, municipal punish the underlying criminal act, it punishes the defen­ authorities have made public hoUsing available to homosexu­ dant's motive for acting. Taking the dissent's explanation al (and unmarried heterosexual) couples. Such initiatives, that the statute is concerned with the ' decision' of the defen­ even where they seem more directedtoward support of basic · dant, it is clear that the hate crimes statute creates nothing civil rights than condonement of homosexual activity or a more than a thought crime. Apparently that dissent is com­ homosexual lifestyle, may in fact have a negative impact on fortable with such an Orwellian notion; we are not." the family and society. Such things as the adoption of chil­ In June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a hate dren, the hiring and firing of teachers, the housing needs of crime ordinance passed by the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. genuine families, landlords' legitimate concernsin screening That ordinance banned conduct which "arouses anger, alarm, potential tenants, for example, are often implicated. or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, While it would be impossible to foresee and respond to religion or gender." The court ruled that the historic protec­ every eventuality in respect td legislative proposals in this tions of the First Amendment, which has been interpreted area, these observations will Wy to identify �ome principles to allow for the punishment of especially inflammatory or and distinctions of a general nature which should be taken provocative speech, would be nullified if legislatures are into consideration by the conscientious Catholic legislator, allowed to selectively punish only certain classes of "fighting voter, or Church authority Who is confronted with such words" based upon the content of the expression, i.e., "bias­ issues. motivated" hatred. The first section will recall relevant passages from the This problem plagues the sentencing enhancement pro­ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's [CDF] "Letter visions of hate crime laws in general. The chilling effect on to the Bishops of the Catholic: Church on the Pastoral Care free speech cast by the hate crimes statutes is dangerously of Homosexual Person" of 1986. The second section will broad, the court notes. In effect, every personal association, deal with their applications. every book ever read, every speech ever given or listened to by anyone charged with one of the underlying offenses, could I. Relevant passages from the CDF's 'Letter' be introduced as evidence that he or she held "bigoted" views 1. The Letterrecalls that the CDF's "Declarationon Cer­ and was acting upon them while committing the offense. tain Questions ConcerningSexual Ethics" of 1975 "took note

64 National EIR July 31, 1992 of the distinction commonly drawn between the homosexual condition or tendency and individual homosexual actions," ! the latter which are "intrinsically disordered" and "in no case to be approved of' (no. 3). 2. '1hleprophe Since "[i]n the discussion which followed the publica­ ts'� eeded to ·tion of the (above-mentioned) Declaration ... an overly death' benign interpretation was given to the homosexual condition oppose 'culture of itself, some going so far as to call it neutral, or even good," the Letter goes on to clarify: "Although the particular inclina­ John Cardinal O'Connor of New York called for the tion of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less emergence of "trueprophets" to dppose the "abomina­ strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and tion of desolation" in abortion, e�thanasia, and assist­ thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disor­ ed suicide, in remarks made in three talks on June 27 der. Therefore special concem and pastoral attention should at the Canadian Pro-Life Conference in Toronto. He be directed toward those who have this condition, lest they warnedthe pro-life conference of the common "threats be led to believe that the living out of this orientation in to human life by way of euthanasia and assisted sui­ homosexual activity is a morally acceptable option. It is not" cide. Euthanasia, you see, has begun with little (no. 3). things-we call them unborn bab·es. The language of 3. "As in every moral disorder, homosexual activity denial by those who would threaten the life of anyone prevents one's own fulfillment and happiness by acting con­ who does not meet their arbitr� standard of 'quality trary to the creative wisdom of God. The Church, in rejecting of life' now includes 'death with dignity.' It's all so erroneous opinions regarding homosexuality, does not limit nice and sterile. It's like calling aJ:>ortion health car.e." but rather defends personal freedom and dignity realistically In a second talk the same day he remarked: "We and authentically understood" (no. 7). are in enormously grave danger of becoming a culture 4. In reference to the homosexual movement, the Letter of death as has never been known in history. Neither states: "One tactic used is to protest that any and all criticism you nor I can ever be convince� that tearing a baby of or reservations about homosexual people, their activity, from his mother's womb, or encouraging a cancer­ and lifestyle are simply diverse forms of unjust discrimina­ ridden elderly woman to commit suicide, are 'natural tion" (no. 9). deeds. ' Society has developed a trulyunnatural culture 5. "There is an effort in some countries to manipulate that fulfills the prophetic 'abomination of desolation.' the Church by gaining the often well-intentioned support of If ever in the world, if ever in hIstory, true prophets her pastors with a view to changing civil statutes and laws. were needed, we need them desperately today." This is done in order to conform to these pressure groups' In condemning the movement! to legalize euthana­ concept that homosexuality is at least a completely harmless, sia and suicide, the cardinal decXared that similar at­ if not an entirely good, thing. Even when the practice of tacks may soon be waged against the sick, the aged, homosexuality may seriously threaten the lives and well­ the elderly frail, the retarded, a�d the handicapped. being of a large number of people, its advocates remain Such attacks, he said, "are reallr attacks on Christ, undeterred and refuse to consider the magnitude of the risks who refused to equivocate the 1ruth, refused to be involved" (no. 9). ambiguous." 6. "She (the Church) is also aware that the view that I homosexual activity is equivalent to , or as acceptable as, the sexual expression of conjugal love has a direct impact on society's understanding of the nature and rights of the family legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one and puts them in jeopardy" (no. 9). has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at 7. "It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been large should be surprised when other distorted notions and and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. practices gain ground, and irrational and violent reactions Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church's increase" (no. 10). pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for 8. "What is at all costs to be avoided is the unfounded others which endangers the most fundamental principles of and demeaning assumption that the sexual behavior of homo­ a healthy society. The intrinsic dignity of each person must sexual persons is always and totally compulsive and there­ always be respected in word, in action, and in law . fore inculpable. What is essential is that the fundamental "But the proper reaction to crimes against homosexual liberty which characterizes the human person and gives him persons should not be to claim that the homosexual condition his dignity be recognized as belonging to the homosexual is not disordered. When such a claim is made and when person as well" (no. 11). homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil 9. "In assessing proposed legislation, the Bishops should

EIR July 3 1 , 1992 National 65 keep as their uppermost concernthe responsibilityto defend It is from this quarter that one is more likely to find those and promote family life" (no. 17). who seek to "manipulate the Church by gaining the often well-intentioned support of her pastors with a view to chang­ II. Applications ing civil statutes and laws" (cf. no. 5), those who use the 10. "Sexual orientation" does not constitute a quality tactic of protesting that "any and all criticism of or reserva­ comparable to race, ethnic background, etc., in respect to tions about homosexual people . '. . are simply diverse forms non-discrimination. Unlike these, homosexual orientation is of unjust discrimination" (cf. no. 9). an objective disorder (cf. "Letter," no. 3). 15. Since in assessing proposed legislation uppermost 11. There are areas in which it is not unjust discrimination concern should be given to the responsibility to defend and to take sexual orientation into account, for example, in the promote family life (cf. no. 17), more careful attention consignment of children to adoption or foster care, in em­ should be paid to the single provisions of the proposed mea­ ployment of teachers or coaches, and in military recruitment. sures. How would they affect adoption or fo ster care? Would 12. Homosexual persons, as human persons, have the they protect homosexual acts, public or private? Do they same rights as all persons including that of not being treated confer equivalent family status on homosexual unions, for in a manner which offends their personal dignity (cf. no. 10). example, in respect to public housing or by entitling the Among other rights, all persons have the right to work, to homosexual partner to the privileges of employment which housing, etc . Nevertheless, these rights are not absolute. might include "family" participation in the health benefits They can be legitimately limited for objectively disordered given to employees (cf. no. 9)? externalconduct. This is sometimes not only licit but obliga­ 16. Finally, since a matter of the common good is con­ tory. This would obtain moreover not only in the case of cerned, it is inappropriate for Church authorities to endorse culpable behavior but even in the case of actions of the physi­ or remain neutral toward adverse legislation even if it grants cally or mentally ill. Thus it is accepted that the state may exceptions to Church organizations and institutions. The restrict the exercise of rights, for example, in the case of Church has the responsibility to promote the public morality contagious or mentally ill persons, in order to protect the of the entire civil society on the basis of fundamental moral common good. values, not simply to protect herself from the application of 13. Including "homosexual orientation" among the con­ harmful laws (cf. no. 17). siderations on the basis of which it is illegal to discriminate can easily lead to regarding homosexuality as a positive source of human rights, for example, in respect to so-called affirmative action, the filling of quotas in hiring practices. ORDER This is all the more mistaken since there is no right to homo­ sexuality (cf. no. 10) which therefore should not form the judicial basis for claims. 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66 National EIR July 31, 1992 guan Contras on behalf of U.S. intelligence agencies, but also ran weapons in exchange for c:lrQgsfor the narco-terrorist I M- 19 in Colombia.

Kissinger connection , Blackout of NOriega On March 13, 1986, Rodriguez �isappeared during a trip to Medellin, Colombia, along with Ruben Dario Paredes, keeps Bush's secrets Jr. , the son of Noriega's predecessorand Henry Kissinger's protege, Gen. Ruben Dario Parede,. At the time, Paredes, Sr. denied that his son had been taked hostage by the MedelHn by Carlos We sley cocaine cartel. General Paredes said he had spoken with the cartel's Ochoa clan, "and they hav� given me their word" Panamanian Gen. Manuel Noriega dropped several bomb­ that they didn't have him. On March 25, 1986, Paredes, Jr. shells at his sentencing hearing in Miami, Florida on July and Rodriguez were found dead i* a Medellin cemetery, 10 which, if followed up, could bring to a boil the October killed by the mob in a drug deal gon� sour. Surprise, Iran-Contra-in which both President George General Paredes was never indicted. Instead, the U.S. Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton are implicated-and other Wash­ media worked overtime to put the right "spin" on his sleazy ington scandals that are yet to be solved. Noriega charged connections. Journalist Georgie Anpe Geyer, whose "line" that he was prevented from raising these issues during his often coincides with that of a factipn of U. S. intelligence trial because Judge William Hoeveler forbade any testimony associated with Kissinger, in her column in the May 14, 1986 about "political matters , issues of the war, or of the invasion" Washington Times, said young Par¢des was killed because of Panama. his business partner, Rodriguez, ha� criticized Noriega! Noriega was able to unveil a number of U.S. covert Lawrence Eagleburger, former : president of Kissinger activities, despite limitations imposed by Hoeveler. Ironical­ Associates, Inc. and Bush's deputy secretary of state, as ly, while his speech was covered in full by the Panamanian much as admitted that Paredes wis Kissinger's personal opposition weekly La Cronica, by La Estrella, as well as choice for the Panamanian presidency. Noriega got in trouble by the anti-Noriega daily La Prensa, most U.S. media pro­ because he reneged on an agreeme�t "to place the support nounced the speech "rambling," ran a few quotes, and then of the military behind General Parqdes' s candidacy for the imposed total silence. presidency," Eagleburger told the O(ganization of American

States. I Weapons-running At Noriega's trial, General Pareqes's younger son, Amet Noriega said "the defense was not allowed to present" Paredes, who was also involved in �he drug-running fiasco evidence on: that caused his brother's death, was ,et off with a slap on the • "Weapons from CostaRi ca, firstfor the Sandinistas, wrist by Hoeveler, in exchange for tprningstate 's evidence . then for the Contras. And with the Contras, those pilots were Prosecutor Myles Malman praised, the young Paredes as allowed to bring drugs from Costa Rica to the United States. "candid, forthright, honest, and trullY remorseful," and said In Costa Rica, their base of operation was run by John Hull, Amet only became a drug trafficker�ause Noriega refused [former CIA station chief and business partner of former to support his father's presidential bi!d! National Security Council staffer Oliver North, Joseph] Fer­ • "The 1984 trip to Washingtonlwhere the United States mindez, and others." picked and backed Barletta as the c�didate against Arnulfo Some ofthe drug-laden return flightsto the United States Arias. " came through the airport at Mena, Arkansas, reportedly un­ Former World Bank Vice Presidient Nicolas Ardito Bar­ der the protection of officialsin Gov. Bill Clinton's adminis­ letta was imposed as the presiden�al candidate to replace tration. Paredes. A protege of Kissinger and �obert McNamara,Bar ­ • "The famous and oft-mentioned Cesar Rodriguez­ letta is a former student of George shultz, the Reagan-Bush recruited by the Americans-who since 1980 worked with administration secretaryof state and t>ro-drug advocate "who the intelligence agencies in arms transfers to Central remembers him well and affection�tely." Barletta's cam­ America. . . . All the pilots recruited by Rodriguez were paign was financedby the drugcartel s, according to testimo­ working for U.S. law enforcement agencies. The govern­ ny presented at Noriega's trial. But B!arletta was never indict­ ment knew it and covered it up." ed and he remains a favoriteof the Blushadministration. At trial, prosecutors claimed that Rodriguez, a drug pilot, EIR's July 24 issue contained t'tlo pages of excerpts of worked for Noriega. But, as reported in EIR's 1987 Special the Noriega speech. However, in Vliew of the blackout by Report "White Paper on the Panama Crisis," Rodriguez, U . S. major media, the editors have ,ecided to publish a full a.k.a. "Captain Poison," not only ran weapons to the Nicara- translation of this historic document next week.

EIR July 31, 1992 National 67 Commentary: Alan Clayton

A Scottish activist visits America

I was only 16 years of age when I first visited the United it. The roads were clean, the broad, and the sur­ States. At the time I was a young seaman and the experience rounding houses very pf()sperc)(ls indeed. There were very of these weeks has stayed with me all my life. It was of few "Yank tanks" on the road I noticed, but I assumed course more years ago than I care to admit. This was just in this must be due to social rather economic change. the second decade afterthe war, when Europeans were still Yet this image began to fade quickly. The big houses very much the poor cousins of Americans. We had just fin­ in Northern Virginia that I remembered with youthful awe, ished the disastrous years of war when all our energies were were still there, but how dilapidated many had become! used in inventing and using ways of destroying each other Courtesy suggested that I not make critical comments as a and reducing the creative energy of centuries to degradation guest in someone else's countv , but my driver issued an and rubble. invitation to comment in the familiar American cadences­ How prosperous and carefree so many Americans had "Guess you must see some chankes, huh?" Perhaps my reply looked then. Many had been involved in the war,. of course, was a little discourteous: "Can Americans no longer afford but the legacy of economic disaster did not seem so mon­ paint?" I asked. The driver see ed nonplussed. "You ain't strous as it was on our side of the Atlantic. The huge cars, or seen nothing yet," he said. automobiles as they always called them, seemed incredible. The next day I was taken b)lI ome members of the ICLC "Yank tanks," we called them, as much out of envy as of to visit the National Gallery of in Washington D.C., an awe. The whole picture was one of bustle and industry, of experience I enjoyed enormous y, as the company consisted commerce and confidence. At the docks at Newport News mainly of Australians. Scots Eand Australians never have in Virginia, the dock workers were full of what we called much difficulty establishing a ! rapport. In the gallery, we "Yankee charm." Perhaps had they heard they might not have discussed the works of Rembrandt and the Florentine painters liked this particular term so bluntly expressed, but at that of the Renaissance, whose ide� of man as the living image time, none of us really knew about the terminology sur­ of God (imago viva Dei), shiites out of all their art. The rounding the Civil War. concept is fundamental to the ICLC, as is the concept of T-here were problems of course. The ugly head of racism the Christian humanist republi , particularly to Australians, was all around, but I never ever felt that it was as profoundly Scots, Irish, and other peoples who, like them, have not yet I rooted and insidious as that which existed in the British colo­ freed themselves from the consequences of British colonial nies where the doctrine of "blacks don't have a soul" was history . always dominant---even though the degenerate Confederacy I suppose it was on the dar! after that, that my youthful took hold of this evil doctrine and tried to institutionalize it image of the United States began to really crack. I traveled in its Constitution. from Washington to Philadelppia by Amtrak train, and the So it was that during the Easter holidays this year I left view from the window was n@t what I expected. Tumble­ for the U. S. A. on the invitation of some friends in the Interna­ down suburbs, derelict steel orks-had I fallen asleep on tional Caucus of Labor Committees (lCLC) [the philosophi­ the train, or was this what I wJs really seeing? Sadly, it was cal association founded by Lyndon LaRouche---ed.]' to brief the latter. So were all the thing that the ICLC and its leading their activists on the political situation in Scotland and to thinker, the jailed politici n and academic Lyndon assess how their philosophy and political insights could LaRouche, said really correcb Leveraged buyouts, junk strengthen Scotland's struggle to free herself from bondage bonds, asset stripping, the pursuit of profitunrelated to pro- I to the British state. duction. Could this have caused such a disaster? Does anyone The first impression upon landing at Washington Nation­ in the United States actually produce anything any more, I al Airport was very similar to the one I had with me from all wondered, or are they all drivrg each other around, selling those years ago. A member of the ICLC came to meet me at each other ice cream, styling each other's hair, or drawing the airport, and as I was driven through Washington, every­ welfare checks, while the oligarchy gets richer and more thing seemed as comfortable and prosperous as I remembered powerful each day?

68 National EIR July 31, 1992 The last thing I would want to do is to sketch the ICLC's America back to being the moral beacon to the peoples of activists as subversives who hate their country and seek to the world, is Lyndon LaRouche. He is of course in prison, destroy it. In fact, they have a patriotism which is infectious denigrated as a criminal , a crank, a crook, a plain old-fash­ in its commitment and enthusiasm, and which made my own ioned nut, but what is new in that? Read the history books, love of my beloved Scotland seem embarrassingly inade­ and find what some were saying about George Washington quate. I was taken to the historical shrines of the indepen­ when they tried to remove him from command of the Conti­ dence struggle and the battle for a republic which would shine nental Army . LaRouche is a paranoid, they say! Well, so was as a beacon to all mankind. I saw the point where Washington Washington when he insisted that his personal bodyguard at crossed the Delaware on that wild Christmas of 1776 when Valley Forge consist solely of Virginia landowners. everything seemed on the verge of being lost. I visited the It was a memorable visit, and I hope more Scots, indeed British barracks at Trenton, captured by the patriots that many more Europeans, can travel to the United States­ night by the help of a great leader, the courage of ordinary certainly, LaRouche's ideas have a power to motivate very Americans, and the grace of God. At Valley Forge, I visited . ordinary people in a way that I have never, ever seen in the the place where the weary and demoralized Continental 30 years or so I have been active in politics. I trust the Army camped the following Christmas when, again, the forc­ philosophy and ideas spread here, because they are taken es of colonial darkness seemed on the verge once again of from the greatest moments and the greatest people in all of triumphing. At Fort McHenry in Baltimore, I stood in the human history, and made relevant to the needs of our time. place where the forces of British imperialism attempted in They can lead to a true "Europe des nations" [Europe of the 1814 to subject the young republic to its will and failed. Here Fatherlands] as Charles de Gaulle saw it, and help Scotland it was that the flag flying over the fort unconquered after 24 find her place there. I for one, will be doing whatever I can hours of savage bombardment inspired an observer, Francis to see that we in Scotland and in Europe, grasp the vision Key, to write of the "Star Spangled Banner" that flew over with all the will and determination of which we are capable. the fort that glorious morning, and which finally became the national anthem of the United States in 1931. The author is an activist in the Scottish nationalist movement. For myself, however, the most poignant moments were He was one of thefirst members of the Committee to Save the when I visited Independence Hall in Philadelphia and the Children in Iraq. nearby Liberty Bell. It was the day when our own general election results were coming across, and I felt utterly despon­ dent at the failure of our Scottish National Party to make the U.S. environmental groups massive electoral breakthrough that we expected. I remem­ bered then that dark night at the Delaware crossing, the cruel were given millions of dollars and savage winter at Valley Forge, and took inspiration from in the past five years to that memory. I touched, as the public are permitted to do, the Liberty Bell. I'm a pretty big man, but I'm not ashamed spread scare stories ab out a to admit that I fought back the tears and said a "wee prayer" man-made ozone that God would give us the strength to overcome the forces of darkness here also and set our nation free. hole that would Meantime, of course, all is not well in the United States cause cancer ' either, and I wondered whether this generation of Americans had anything like the character of their magnificentforebe ars . on Earth. The habits of British imperialism have infected your politics Now, for only you and your statecraft since U. S. involvement in the wicked $15, Treaty of Versailles which punished Germany for daring to can learn the truth threaten British hegemony. The immoral invasion of Pana­ about the ozone scare. ma, the savage and wanton destruction of Iraq, the naked looting of people everywhere, including the poor in America herself, are a manifest betrayal of the principles for which THE HOLES IN the firstcitizens fought and died. In American history, moments of darkness and crisis THE OZONE SCARE The Scientific Evidence That the have produced great leaders. There were Washington, Lin­ Sky Isn't Falling coln, and Kennedy, who was not allowed to see his vision Send checks or money orders (U.S. currency only) to through, and since whose death the space projects have been replaced by projects for war and domination. I have become 21 st Century Dept E $15 plus $3 shipping P.O. Box 16285, Washington, D.C., 20041 . and handling increasingly convinced that the leader capable of lifting

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gram's main legislative backer, Delegate strange that an organization so on guard for • Steve Martin (R-Chesterfield) , that "with­ bigotry does. not practice what it preaches, ' out sanctions there will be no incentives to she said." Bush fears secrets inside keep [students] in school." Delegate Wil­ liam P. Robinson, Norfolk Democrat and Iraq agriculture ministry chairman of the House black caucus, de­ There is a special reason that George Bush nounced the pilot project as "draconian, re­ is so desperate to get into the Agriculture gressive and racist." State Sen. Mark Gephardt rival blasts Ministry in Iraq: "Iraq-gate" documents are Earley, (R-Chesapeake), told the Times: located there, a highly informed Middle "We need to stop subsidizing irresponsi­ health care 'containment' East expert told EIR recently . "Bush's main bility." Leif Johnsort, LaRouche Democratic candi­ policy toward Iraq is to step up funding and date for Congress in Missouri's 3rd C.D., support for covert operations against Sad­ charged that the new "Health Care Cost dam," the source said. "However, there is Containment and Reform Act of 1992," in­ one 'wild card' in the Baghdad situation, troduced by Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt, which is this Ministry of Agriculture . You ADL 'minstrel show,' will reduce health care for millions of know why he's so concerned about that? Americans. i"This bill would put all health Remember, the aid to Iraq in the 1989-1 990 shocked black worker providers , whether they accept federal , pri­ period was agriculture-food help, and all the "Black Worker at the ADL Charges League vate insurance, state, or private payment, documents on the U.S.-Iraqi deals were with Racism," was the headline of an article under feder�1 'cost containment' controls," channelled through the Ministry of Agricul­ in the June 20 issue of the New York Am­ Johnson said in a July 16 statement. ture . Bush is desperate to get his hands on sterdam News . The article comes in the "My opponent's new bill would cap what is in there . If it was the Ministry of wake of an ADL report released in mid­ health costs at the yearly percentage growth Health, he wouldn't care less. It all has noth­ June, entitled "Black Demagogues and the of the GroS$ Domestic Product. In this de­ ing to do with chemical weapons plans." Rise of Anti-Semitism," which attacks nu­ pression, thlit imposes an overall reduction merous African-American leaders , includ­ in health funds, which will reduce health ing Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrak­ care for a gteat number of Americans, par­ han and Amsterdam News publisher Wilbert ticularly those with fixed or low incomes," Tatum. said Johnson, who is Gephardt's only active Virginia aid to dependent The front-page articlecontinued: "A black opponent inthe Aug. 4 Democratic primary female employee at the Anti-Defamation election. children faces deep cuts League(ADL) accused the organization of be­ "Geph�dt's co-sponsor, Rep. Pete A "carrot-and-stick" program that targets ing racially insensitive and overzealous in its Stark (D-Calif.), admits this would reduce destitute parents of schoolchildren is now pursuit of anti-Semitic behavior. health care expenditures by $250 billion by in operation in Virginia. The pilot project, "Cheryl Hamilton, a fundraiser assis­ the year 2000." called Virginia Incentives To Advance tant, asserts that the ADL allowed a modem Johnson declared, "On June 25, Gep­ Learning (VITAL) , will pay an additional minstrel show to occur during the Fashion hardt told meporters, 'Cost containment is $30 per month to those families receiving Accessories Torch of Liberty ceremonies the linchpi� of health care reform.' I say Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) if their last November. 'I was shocked,' Hamilton the good hblth of every American is the children do well in school; and, using ex­ told the Amsterdam News in a telephone in­ linchpin of health care reform. People, not isting statutes, the program will allow courts terview ....'I missed some of the perfor­ dollars or the federal bureaucracy, come to eliminate a parent's entire portion of the mance,' she said, 'but I was there when the first-always . " family 's ADC allowance if a child is chroni­ lights changed and the dancers-blonde and cally truant. An average family allowance blue-eyed teenagers-were suddenly trans­ is $291 per month for a single parent with formed into black-face modem minstrels. two children. Then, to add insult to injury , they passed out The program spends $600,000 to track white gloves to members of the audience. Supreme Court upholds I refused to take one and admonished the children, whose families will benefit or suf­ FDA b n on abortion pill fer by their behavior. It is beginning in se­ waiter, 'Don't you know this is a minstrel � lected communities chosen by the state gov­ show?' I asked him. 'So what?' he replied. In a brief three paragraphs, the U.S. Su­ ernment. DeAnn Lineberry of the state "Hamilton, 31, has been employed at preme Court ruled 7-2 to uphold the Food Department of Social Services told EIR that ADL as a temporary secretary for six and Drug Administration's ban on RU-486, the penalty provision is not new, but is being months and reports hearing all sorts of racist the chemical abortifacient that was first le­ used for the firsttime. remarks and innuendos from the white em­ galized in France. The ruling defeats the The Washington Times quoted the pro- ployees and supervisors. 'I find it very abortion lobby's attempt to test the legality

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AL GORE, • • as a congressman in of the federal laws that prohibit the import pared Abraham Lincoln's fight for equality 1979, co-sponsored a resolution of RU-486 for personal use. On June 29, to Stalin, according to Insight: "Lincoln making April 27-Ma y I "Appropriate Leona Benten, 29, traveled to England to philosophically incorporated the Declara­ Technology Week" which proclaims: purchase the drug, and returned to the u.s. tion of Independence , with its statement that "We need to spend less capital, pro­ to abort her baby. Her trip was paid for by all men are created equal, into the Constitu­ vide more job� by creating more labor the Center for Reproductive Law and Poli­ tion, which made equality 'the idea of the intensive technology." cy, which is also providing her attorneys. state,' says Llewellyn Rockwell ....After Abortion rights fanatic Lawrence Lader idealizing equality, 'Stalin is the next stop • AN FOIA SUIT brought against alerted the FDA of the intention to bring down the line.' ...We should celebrate the the Boston U. . Attorney's office by the drug into the country. Benten and her diversity of human nature .' " S The LaRouche Campaign's 1984 attorneys then moved with a planned lawsuit Rockwell also told Insight, "I think there treasurer Edwnrd Spannaus went to when Customs confiscated the drug at JFK is a cultural war coming up . We 're in a race trial on July l5 in a highly unusual InternationalAirport. war right now. " move. The suit, brought before Judge The FDA allows the use of non-ap­ Thomas Fleming, editor of Chronicles Robert Keeton seeks documents con­ proved drugsfor research and when an indi­ magazine, told Insight: "The thing I like cerning then-U.S. Attorney William vidual is terminally ill or no cureexists for a about the South" is its similarity to the Mid­ Weld's contaCts with government serious illness. But Benten and her attorneys dle Ages, which were "gritty and dirty with and private a ncies including NBC argued this "discretionary"policy should in­ peoplefighting forwhat they believed in on gb and the Anti-Defamation League clude exceptions for the personal use of RU- a day-to-day level. The thing I love about during 1983-84. Of 5,000 FOIA cas­ 486 as an abortifacient. The FDA argued the medieval politics was that it was people in es, only a han ful have ever gone to point that the only reason RU-486 is not the street rioting day-to-day ." � trial . approved is because its manufacturer, i French pharmaceutical firm Roussel-Uclaf, • UT AH'S upreme Court on July has refused to conduct the necessary safety � 17 again denied the appealof William tests on the drug in the U. S. Andrews, a bIiack man scheduled to Justices Harry A. Blackmun and John Judge 'moved' by be executed on July 30 for murders Paul Stevens dissented on the grounds that which he did \lot commit. The only the government's interestinprotecting Ben­ Noriega statement recourse now 'is for his sentence to ten by avoiding a health risk associated with Federal Judge William Hoeveler of Miami, be commuted :by the Utah Board of the pills was not sufficient reason to create ' who sentenced Panamanian Gen. Manuel Pardons. an undue burden to Benten' s "right" to Noriega to 40 years in prison, told the July abortion. 19 Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel that he was • ROCHELLE ASCHER filed a The Center for Reproductive Law and touched by Noriega's sentencing speech on petition befoq: the U.S. Supreme Policy reported that Rep. Patricia Schroeder July 10. Court on July 16 to overturnher 1989 (D-Colo.) planned to introduce a bill in Con­ During the seven-month trial , Hoeveler conviction on trumped-up charges of gress to try to obtain the pills for Benten. had forbidden the defense to mention the "securities violations" in Virginia. invasion of Panama or present any "politi­ Ascher, who is currently serving a cal" evidence, including the general's infor­ lO-year senteDFe, was originally sen­ mation about the drugs-for-weapons opera­ tenced to 86 y�ars as part of the "get tions carried out by White House operatives LaRouche" ef�rt. Neo-Confederates still in Central America, which Noriega had vig­ orously opposed. His gag order preordained • AN EXTRIADITION request by attacking United States Noriega's conviction. Even at the sentenc­ the U.S. to Nigeria for an accused The July 19 issue of the Washington Times's ing , Hoeveler upheld prosecutors' objec­ drug dealer h*s been rejected by a Insight magazine gave prominent coverage tions and forbade Noriega to talk about some Nigerian cou�, according to a wire to the "neo-Confederates" who are still U.S. covert operations. from the News Agency of Nigeria. fightingfor "the principles of 1 860. " Insight "Whatever happened outside the four Magistrate srubAdelana, quoted by cited the fact that three presidential candi­ corners of this courtroom is somebody el­ NAN, said on July 18: "A fugitive dates are from the South, adding, "In a year se's burden, not mine," he told the Sun offender can 'only be surrendered of widespread voter anger, intellectual par­ Sentinel "I always have difficulty with sen­ when the magistrate was satisfiedthat tisans of the Confederacy think they detect tencing," added Hoeveler. "I always do, a prima fa cie . case had been made a wider audience for their views. " but I suffered more with this one than I against him, but could not be surrend­ Ludwig von Mises Institute head Llew­ usually do ," he said. "I sometimes wonder ered when it appeared that the trial ellyn Rockwell, a leading proponent of re­ who we are to judge what happens to the would be prejUdiced." viving the Confederate Constitution, com- lives of others."

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A visionfor America

The recently concluded Democratic Party convention the present crisis. The problem is not an easy one. If had the quality of a Nazi Party Nuremberg rally re­ America is to recover, then every American will be played as farce. With that, and the abdication of Ross called upon to readjust his or her priorities; to reevalu­ Perot, there appears to be no alternative to the disaster ate precisely what it is that is most important in life, represented by the failure of the Bush administration. and what can be sacrificed to a higher purpose. Crucial This is not merely a problem for Americans. Like in this is reassertion of the sanctity of human life . This it or not, the 20th century has been and still is an Ameri­ meansthat the rights of the young, the elderly, the sick, can Century . This is reflected in the perilous state of and disabled, cannot be violated. It means that U.S. every major economy in the world today; in the ability banks will be taken off welfare , not families and the of the Anglo-Americans to use war and the threat of unemployed. It certainly means high progressive taxes war to enforce tribute from the rest of the world; in to wipe out the speculative gains of the super-rich. the threat of diseases like AIDS to decimate whole For a genuine economic recovery to occur in the continents . United States, it will be necessary to prioritize invest­ We live in a time when much of mankind faces ment in basic infrastructure-energy, transportation, truly terrible conditions of life , with the fear of still and water development-but �so in the capital infra­ worse to come. In the large, there is the specter of yet structure of industry. Investment policy must also be another world war in this war-torn century . Already vectored toward science in such a way as to foster millions of refugees from Serbian genocide have be­ energy-intensive, capital-intensive technologies. This come displaced persons, whose best hope is to find will entail an investment on the order of $500-600 bil­ shelter in hastily built tent cities, under conditions lion, and the creation of 6 to 8 million new jobs, and it which will lead to epidemics and plagues. It is hardly means that tax incentives must be given to promote an exaggeration to say that a thirdworld warhas already such investment. begun . This is a perspective which will not bring a sudden We have only to look at the accumulation of small leap into prosperity; rather, it is a perspective for recov­ wars which have erupted since the United Nations in­ ery over one or more decades. It demands that people vaded Iraq-and we see threats of renewed bombings think ahead and be willing to plan and work for the against that hapless nation. Particularly since Jimmy future , rather than living for momentary gratification. Carter was elected President, U.S. economic policy The cluster of values which are presently associated has been an escalating series of disasters . George with New Age ideology, hedonism, the rock-drug cul­ Bush's evil "one world order" has turned into the ture , will have to be repudiated, in favor of more tradi­ spawning ground of disorder and war. tional values associated with the family. Many will It was under these circumstances that Lyndon have to forgo certain perceived pleasures in order to LaRouche issued a statement on July 20, in which he provide a future for the next generation. No doubt life called for a genuine industrial recovery policy and will be less easy, but men, women, and children today made the stirring pledge to the American people: "So shoulder an enonnous burden of despair as they try to never fear; I'm there . I'm fighting. Unlike Perot, I shall accommodate to an increasingly uncertain and threat­ never give up; I'm fightingfor thisnati on. There seems ening future . Perhaps Americans will all work harder, to be nobody else with a glimmer of understanding of but they will be working to a purpose. what's needed . I shall stand. I shall present what is The period ahead will be a difficult one, but it can needed-and I shall fight to the end. I shall never give also be joyous, if there are enough people who are up . On that you may depend." willing to share LaRouche's commitment not to give LaRouche , however, has no panaceas for solving up the fight, whatever the cost.

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